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Baker -- no Cooper, but a classic Yank with a long, friendly, shovel-shaped face -- begins his new assignment on Sunday with Selected Exits, a biographical tribute to Welsh author and raconteur Gwyn Thomas, starring Anthony Hopkins. Already Baker has found that the job is like sailing a ship in a very small bottle. "Most of the time you have two or 2 1/2 minutes," he says. "That's one page, double-spaced. My columns are three pages. On TV, that would be like being Hubert Humphrey -- Will this guy ever shut...
...Francisco law firm were shot by an angry client last month. Harvey Saferstein, president of the California Bar Association, pressed for a "cease-fire" on lawyer bashing, characterizing it as a form of "hate speech." At least one advertiser felt the heat and backed down. Miller Lite decided to yank an ad showing cowboys roping divorce lawyers at a rodeo. But the enmity runs deep in the culture: after Saferstein spoke out publicly against such bashing, he received a slew of derisive calls at his office, leading his partners to beef up security...
...DeGuerin told his client that the government did not have much of a case against him -- an impression the negotiators did not contradict. What they heard from the lawyer helped convince them that the Davidians wanted to come out. All the FBI needed was to open the door and yank...
...colleagues in Congress that "when it comes to a tough vote, he's going to be with you and won't leave you out there hanging like some Presidents have done." Ground zero is the House Ways and Means Committee, where lobbyists hover over the 38 members as they yank and pull at each spending proposal. "At Ways and Means, we're looking at the most important six months of the committee's existence," says Texas Congressman Bill Archer, the ranking Republican. "If lobbyists can organize so much turmoil over a little tax loophole, just imagine what they...
...spent the past eight years wandering in the political wilderness. After Ronald Reagan routed Walter Mondale in 1984, From and a group of mostly Southern Democrats organized the Democratic Leadership Council (D.L.C.). The group wanted to yank the party to the right, certain that Democrats could regain the White House only with fewer appeals to special interests and more to the predominantly white, politically moderate, middle- class voters. Pundits predicted the council's early demise, and Jesse Jackson derided it as "the Southern White Boys Club." But its diagnosis of the party's ills seemed to be borne...