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LUCI: I see that Bill Gates, that bug-eyed little weasel, is acting like you don't exist. Want me to deal with him? I know people in the Justice Department...
...McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion...
...Like a weasel, Bill Clinton emerges from the drainpipe shinier than when he went in. He has spent a year in the dark, ever since that night last January when he called his slippery guru Dick Morris and asked him to take the country's moral temperature. When Morris' polling suggested that people could stomach an affair but not a cover-up, Clinton's response was his mantra. "Well, we'll just have to win then." Now, on the anniversary of that vow, the President seems to have made good...
...question, one that nearly everyone in the Clinton Administration had tried to put out of their minds: What happens the day after Saddam offers a last-minute capitulation? And that is exactly what he did, again taking the international community to the edge of military conflict, then seeking to weasel out in a flurry of paper diplomacy. The U.S. had again massed a multibillion-dollar armada in the Persian Gulf only to have Saddam stall its war machine with a sudden change of heart...
Many students are conveniently "undecided" about their concentrations when trying to weasel into this or that department's introductory course. Helen Vendler's core class may be so oversubscribed that each seat occupied by an auditor translates directly into a legitimate student forced to stand through lecture--but nobody checks credentials at the door, so why not soak up some literary culture...