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Don’t Undo My Work
People are asking, is John Major free to go his own way.? He is within the constraints of the principles set out in the Conservative manifesto. Don’t forget, I set out our principles before we came into power so that people knew exactly what we stood for.
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An ‘Office Lady’ Has Her D In Court
Sexual harassment not only wasn’t an issue in Japan, it was a joke. Some bars even gleefully took the Japanese version of the phrase, seku hara, as their name.
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Escape From Nashville
The singer k. d. lang appeared on “The Tonight Show” two weeks back, in a lame smoking jacket and mousse job all God’s creatures could envy, and explained her relationship to country music. “It was like a lover,” she said. “It was just time to say goodbye.” Her romance with Nashville – the affair between an avant-garde Canadian performance artist and a town notoriously suspicious of outsiders – was stormy even in the best of times.
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Peri Picks
With the recession causing the media and lobbyists to cut expenses, the Washington restaurant scene is getting pretty dicey these days. Still, if you’re taking the kids to see the National Air and Space Museum this spring, there are a number of alternatives to dining near Larry King at Duke Zeibert’s: In this early-rising town, breakfast is the power meal.
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A Deal They Can’t Refuse?
For Joanne Morrisey, it should be a piece of cake. As president of Firemark Research, a New Jersey investment adviser, Morrisey spends her professional life studying insurance companies.
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High As A Kiter
The House Ethics Committee this week named all 264 members of Congress who had bounced at least one check at the House bank. NEWSWEEK has compiled a list of cheek kiters who now find themselves in an exclusive $300,000 club to which they would rather not belong: Stephen Solarz, D (N.Y.) $594,646 on 743 checks Carl Perkins, D (Ky.) $565,651 on 514 checks Harold Ford, D (Tenn.) $552,447 on 388 checks Robert Mrazek, D (N.Y.) $351,609 on 920 checks Robert Davis, R (Mich.) $344,450 on 878 checks
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Men At War
Outside publisher Lawrence Burke isn’t amused by Jann Wenner’s handsome new adventure-and-fitness magazine, Men’s Journal. First Wenner lured away Outside editor John Rasmus. Now Burke is complaining that Wonner’s magazine is a mere photocopy of his own-including Its use of the name of Outside’s popular column “Out There.” Burke, who bought Outside from Wonner in 1978, says, “I don’t know if it’s arrogance or what:’ Wenner couldn’t be reached. Rasmus wouldn’t comment.
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Squeezing Stones
The recession and other problems have taken their toll on the fund-raising efforts of Democrats and Republicans this year. Though Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has raised $9.5 million, his campaign is now $600,000 in debt, causing him temporarily to suspend the paychecks of about 20 staffers in the Washington, D.C., office.
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What Becomes A Legend?
You don’t revive a great play, it revives you. If done right, that is. You can put the text onstage, but you can’t recapture the surprise, the theatrical big bang that creates a classic.
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A Chocolate Dream
Worried about tooth decay? Then be sure to snack regularly on your favorite chocolate bar. So says the Princeton Dental Resource Center. As you may have guessed, we’re not talking Princeton University The New York Times reported last week that the resource center is a creation of M&M/Mars, the candy giant. The organization Is standing by its assertions, even as researchers dismiss them. Too bad.
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The End Of A Superpower Proxy War
By the time Najibullah decided to flee the country, it was too late. Afghanistan’s president had clung to power for three years since the Soviet Union withdrew the troops that protected him from Islamic insurgents backed by the United States.
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Why George Bush Will Get Zapped
Adage alert: the only reliable prediction is that predictions are reliably wrong. Fred Barnes argues in The New Republic this week that absent some cataclysmic event, Bill Clinton is a “goner” against George Bush.
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Vice President Edition
With Clinton having all but sewn up the nomination, his veep stakes are underway. Perot needs a pol, and Bush won’t dump Dan. Arrows show likelihood of getting a nod.
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Time To Drink Your Vegetables
Stressed out? Try fixing yourself a glass of gingercantaloupe juice, complete with rind. A touch of Lyme disease? Nothing like a healing draft of spinach-parsley-tomato-green-pepper juice.
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Arlen Specter’s Specter
Arlen Specter was lost. The April 28 Pennsylvania primary was coming up, and this was a day set aside to demonstrate how the two-term Republican senator was staying in touch with his state.
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The Rage To Rage
House Speaker Tom Foley has been doing his best to explain to people the features of the overdraft scandal that make it considerably less scandalous than the attendant uproar would suggest.
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At Your Cervix
Japan’s new ambassador to the United States, Takakazu Kuriyama, is personally familiar with how Detroit’s automakers work. The Japanese Embassy ordered a Lincoln limo for Kuriyama’s official business two months ago.
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I Am A Big Lawyer Basher
I wrote my first and last law-review article in 1986. You can look it up: Maryland Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, pages 78-85. Actually, it’s only a brief comment on a windy treatise by a genuine law professor.
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Breaking The Bonds Of Hate
Ever since I can remember, I wanted the ideal life: a big house, lots of money, cars. I wanted to find the perfect happiness that so many people have longed for.
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A Gentleman And A Lawyer
He’s kept his fans Spellbound for nearly five decades. That’s why the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center honored Gregory Peck with a gala retrospective last week.
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Springtime In Teheran?
It’s tempting to conclude that the fire has gone out of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution. In Teheran, peeling slogans have been scrubbed off the walls and replaced with ads for Japanese video players.
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