Word: wings
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...directorial debut (he also contributes a version of his klutzy Home Alone crook, this time playing an addled pitching coach), and there are finely tuned supporting performances by Amy Morton as Henry's mom and Gary Busey as a fading pitcher who takes the kid under his faltering wing...
...best of all possible worlds, the space program would not be getting crushed between the defense budget, galumphing entitlements and a right-wing rebellion against government spending for anything but keeping undesirables out of the neighborhood. But this is not the best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough...
Washington -- It has taken hardly a month for David Gergen to become the White House Svengali: a top West Wing aide says he's now the non-Hillary person the President listens to most. It was Gergen who pushed Clinton to have dinner with Bob Dole last week, who helped dispose of the travel-office scandal and the owls-vs.-timber brouhaha. "We're taking out the trash," says a Clinton aide in the White House. "When we come back in July and go into conference on the budget, we cannot have this stuff lying around...
...girding to attack another Clinton nominee on ideological grounds. Morton Halperin is a former American Civil Liberties Union official who, the White House announced, will be nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Human Rights. In 1977, Halperin testified on behalf of Philip Agee, a left-wing former CIA officer who faced deportation from Britain. Senators opposed to Halperin include Republicans Trent Lott of Mississippi and Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina. While Halperin is said to be performing outstandingly in his interim Pentagon job, his Democratic support is weak, and sources say Clinton is backing away from...
...assaults show, terrorism spans a spectrum from state-sponsored attacks to individual acts (like the exploits of the university and high-tech bomber) that straddle an ill-defined border between terrorism and plain ordinary crime. The mix, however, has been changing. The traditional tightly organized, centrally directed, usually left-wing and often state-financed networks of highly trained terrorists are in decline. The end of the cold war has deprived them of the money, weapons and safe havens that used to be provided by Moscow and Eastern Europe. Syria and Libya, traditional sources of training, direction and money, have been...