Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Archie was a known quantity," Gomes says. "He was not some obscure person propelled into the limelight...It didn't hurt that he was black, and it didn't hurt that he had an establishmentarian point of view...
Hyde still firmly believes that censure is not a constitutional option. In his view, if the House votes down impeachment, that's the end of it. But the G.O.P. is also mindful that its Christian conservative base will not be happy. That's why House Republicans last week looked like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk--imitating forward movement toward impeachment while in reality backing away. Though Hyde said right after the election that Starr would be his committee's sole major witness, committee aides were suggesting he may call others, including presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey...
...problem may be that Reardon, attempting to be original, has eschewed using the vengeful, violent Jean--who in her viciousness somewhat resembles the protagonist of Bastard, Ruth Anne Boatwright--as the narrator, instead picking her ineffectual brother Ray. This could have been an interesting switch in points of view, and the structure of the novel, as a series of flashbacks illuminating the present-day situation, could have worked...
...speaker. Richard Meier managed to keep a packed auditorium of impatient, trendsetting, party hoppers thoroughly entertained for more than an hour. He kept me, with my coat and scarf still on and my bag still around my neck, squeezed between people who were tall enough to prevent my view both of Richard Meier and his slides, happily standing...
...TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says it may not be over yet for tobacco companies -- as was the case last time, the federal government could still jump in and queer the deal with extra punishments -- but for the states, this one was a no-brainer. "My view has always been that the states should take the money and stop messing around. This is a public health issue -- the longer they fight in the courts, the more people are going to die in the meantime." And $206 billion in the hand is a whole lot better than waiting...