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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announcement, not only because few had thought the crusty majority leader would give up the perquisites of office but also because even fewer had believed that Dole had such a bold stroke in him. They were surprised that Bob Dole could surprise them. The announcement came just as various Republican muckamucks around town were talking about doing something radical, but none counseled anything quite as radical as what Dole himself concocted. In the past when Dole campaigns flagged, he fired staff members. This time he fired himself. Noted former Senate aide Lawrence O'Donnell: "Psychologically, Dole could never take walking...
...Likud finally and officially buried old threats to undo the peace agreements that established Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to the party's new platform, a Likud government would "honor international agreements" and "recognize the facts created on the ground by the various accords." Netanyahu, having said he would never meet with Yasser Arafat, was compelled to concede that he might...
...Snow kept referring to Labor Secretary Robert Reich as "Senator." Snow, a conservative newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...first half or so of Babel Tower, and when the thing is finally published, with the helping hand of Frederica, the government decides to prosecute it under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. And yet a third narrative follows the members of a government committee as they travel to various schools in order to file a report on ways to improve the teaching of English...
...nothing else, Babel Tower suggests a reason that not very much thrilling fiction has been written about the workings of education committees. Byatt's interests here are more philological than dramatic. All her various plots underscore the mixed blessings of language, its power to obscure as well as reveal, to enslave as well as liberate. The subject is certainly worthy but not perhaps sufficiently vivid to propel readers through a long, long literary haul. Byatt writes beautifully, and passages of this novel come to brilliant life. But the net effect of the whole, as opposed to the parts, seems...