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...stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest debt numbers are news to him -- that he is a victim whose best intentions may fall before a new reality -- is chutzpah writ large...
Richard Nixon made the final decision to yield the presidency, and the inevitability of his departure had been writ large for days. Still, the pain was intense. Not long before Nixon made that final wave from the door of his helicopter, Alexander Haig, then the White House chief of staff, met with a friend in the shadowy Map Room in the basement of the Mansion. "He will be dead within a year," said Haig of Nixon, having witnessed an emotional wound beyond anything Haig the soldier had seen before...
...Indian tribes are trying to get government to honor promises of autonomy that go back 150 years. Some tribes fund the effort with dollars earned from gambling operations on Indian land, where state writ generally does not apply...
...backs. Rap is also a worldwide fashion commodity. Local variations of the basic American street outfit -- baggy pants, pricey sneakers, hooded sweatshirts, flashes of jewelry -- turn up everywhere, from dance clubs to fashion layouts. Yves Saint Laurent produces golden belt buckles with his logo writ large, Public Enemy-style, and Karl Lagerfeld loads his Chanel models with enough baubles to sink M.C. Hammer into the ground like a stake. Spike's Joint in Tokyo (yes, that Spike) supplies Japanese trendies with film-related merchandise, from team jackets ($794) to the official Malcolm X baseball cap ($39) -- the one indispensable part...
...Historical Studies A-42, "Nation, State, and Empire in West Eurasian Space: Where Romanov Writ Has Run," in the spring...