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Gaines didn't really invent the magazine, didn't toss in ideas, didn't recruit new editors or writers or artists. Rather, he carefully oversaw the details of the business and by the (mainly) happy force of his personality helped whip up the wiseacre clubhouse chaos from which Mad emerged. "He always said, 'You're going to have to carry me out of here,' " Meglin remembers, "because he didn't have many interests. Mad was his life's work, his hobby, his social life...
Incumbent Bob Mosbacher is better at fund raising. Look for Jim Baker to take the whip hand after the convention...
Such accounts speak to a reality that the current carnage obscures: in many villages, ethnic groups have coexisted peacefully for centuries. Probably they would have continued that way had it not been for the zealous ambitions of their nationalist leaders. Serbia's Milosevic is not the only one to whip up ethnic hostility. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, no less brutal a dictator or ardent a nationalist, used the fighting in his republic to pummel Serbs and attempt to impose total control over any who stayed in Croatian territory. Now Tudjman is taking advantage of Bosnia's war to occupy areas...
...months, Republicans, led by minority whip Newt Gingrich, gleefully bashed Democrats over the issue. But "Rubbergate" has bounced back at the G.O.P., as Gingrich and three members of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, have admitted that they incurred overdrafts while serving in Congress. Almost overnight, the White House had to soften its stance on the scandal -- especially since George Bush himself could not say for sure whether he had abused the privilege when he served in the House from 1967 through...
...times. By week's end, more than 75 members of Congress had fessed up to using the privilege, but some of the most chronic abusers remained silent. Even the leadership has not been spared embarrassment: Speaker Tom Foley kited a $540 check for stereo equipment, and House minority whip Newt Gingrich wrote bad checks at least three times...