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...past two months have been a frustrating lesson in the meaning of checks and balances. But even if they end up losing some of the big early battles, they insist that the war is only beginning. "Our term is two years, not 100 days," says G.O.P. freshman Roger Wicker of Mississippi. "The balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto are means to an end, and that's federal-budget discipline. The real test of our victory will be where the deficit is at the end of that two-year period...
Each Halloween, Richard and Pat Nixon would stand on their broad doorstep, greeting their guests with smiles and handshakes. They were flanked on both sides by enormous wicker baskets overflowing with candy and other treats...
...elite are after money: some just want power. A candidate angling to fill the seat of the deposed Aristide is Emmanuel Constant, leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. He presides from a wicker chair in his backyard over a ragtag group that has been accused of committing many of the 133 political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political...
...missile slammed into a crowded neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the city. Notoriously inaccurate, the Scud missed its intended target -- the presidential palace -- and destroyed a block of mud-brick houses. Twenty-five residents were killed in their sleep, their bodies scattered amid crumbled masonry and shreds of wicker baskets. Later, as bulldozers pushed away the rubble, workers trained fire hoses on the angry crowd to disperse it. The casualties were the first known civilian deaths in a violent struggle for power between two rival political leaders that has ruptured the four-year-old union between North and South...
...Queen of Spain, don't stop because there is a deadline on managed competition. Paint chips and fabric swatches also fall under her jurisdiction. She is redecorating the private quarters to suit her informal style, which favors quilts and rocking chairs. She has already moved a table and white wicker chairs into the kitchen upstairs so that the family can eat breakfast and dinner in a cozier manner than the imposing dining room would permit. And she has had bedside phones installed that do not require going through a switchboard. "He sleeps here and has his phone," she says, indicating...