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...Yank. (Irabu 11-9) at T.B. (Santana...
...that a powerful network of whites leaped to his defense. Radio talk show host Don Imus, NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen and CNN's Larry King minimized the seriousness of Barnicle's transgressions. Staples, the big office-supply chain, hinted that it might yank its advertising if Barnicle left the Globe. The pressure gave Barnicle time to make his case for leniency and moved Storin to find a face-saving way to back down...
...badly does Congress want to nix a national ID card? Not very. Late in the evening last Wednesday, Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) tried to yank spending for a Department of Transportation ID card proposal that would compel states to encode Social Security numbers (and possibly digitized fingerprints) into driver's licenses. Barr's ploy didn't work. Democrats defended the plan as a way to let immigrants prove they're citizens. Other Republicans suggested Barr try to forge a compromise with transportation bureaucrats, which he'll do in a meeting this week...
...want to know Frank Horrigan, what his past is, who at the office he has the hots for. I still want him to save the President, but I don?t want to meet him until afterward. Lift the curtain and the wizard grows smaller. Lift the mirrored sunglasses and yank out the earpiece, and the Secret Service man loses his invincibility. He is no longer a wall between peril and the President, he?s a guy in a gray suit with a lousy home life. And that makes me nervous...
...said Mitch, apparently persuaded by his mother, had written a letter declaring that he did not want the piece to air and that it violated his attorney-client privileges. When Mitch's mother refused to take Furth's call, Furth says he decided to ask the network to yank its story...