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...mean it was totally political! Midnight Oil singing "Beds Are Burning," Yothu Yindi singing "Treaty" - singing these songs right into John Howard's reddening face. And then that Parade of Icons: wacky, wacky, wacky! On floats, they had Greg Norman hitting golf balls into the crowd, Paul Hogan whip- cracking a bunch of prawns - a school of prawns? What do prawns travel in? - bicycles! Elle Macpherson taking her clothes off and Priscilla Queen of the Desert attended by scores of drag queens. So, then: an old golfer who can't win anymore; an old comedian who no longer makes...
...furious struggle at the very top of that party over China's economic and political direction - a struggle in which hard-liners obsessed with maintaining order are currently dominant. Arch- reformer prime minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed out of concluding a permanent trade agreement last April at the height of the furor over allegations of Chinese nuclear espionage...
...They got down to business right from the starting bell. Lazio attacked Clinton on her lack of a record. Clinton assailed Lazio's role as Deoyt Whip under Newt Gingrich. Lazio shot back with a doozy: "You, of all people, Mrs. Clinton, should not bring up guilt by association." You almost expected the audience to hiss...
...convention so muscle-bound with money. At the downtown hotels, there were limos too long to turn into the oval drives. At the airport, there was Learjet gridlock. Everywhere there was Representative Tom DeLay, House Republican whip, chief money pumper and master of the revels, who spent the week stroking donors in a series of private vintage railway cars, which just happened to be the defining perk of the robber barons of the last Gilded...
Fortunately I ran into Vicki Varela, the deputy chief of staff to the Governor of Utah and chief floor whip, a title I found very sexy, especially since it meant she had one of the biggest radios in the room...