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...points. The weather in Washington was baffled, raining and shining and raining again through air that defied you to breath it. On "Monica beach," the 50-yd. stretch of White House gravel where the TV reporters do their stand-ups, 35 bright umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms, and the pressroom was packed despite a complete absence of news. Outside the White House, a man was arrested after he cut his throat with a screwdriver in front of the mansion, shouting, "Why do you care about Lewinsky? Bad things are happening in Iraq...
...Work on the April 7, 1944 issue of the wartime Crimson publication, the Harvard Service News, was interrupted when what foreign object came flying through a pressroom window...
Powered by clutch hiitting and destructive hitting, The Crimson's softball team dominated its rival The Independent on the softball field almost as much as it dominates in the pressroom...
...well-seasoned Irishman in the New York city hall pressroom eyed with obvious distaste the new boy being introduced around. "Barrett?" he sneered in lieu of a handshake. "You're no Barrett." He was offended that this kid of obviously Semitic stock had the temerity to filch a surname from the old sod. Stuck for a rebuttal, I swallowed the slight. Even now, 35 years later, a good answer eludes me. But to my father, who had decreed the new family name, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
Kerrey was enjoying his moments in the sun. His antechamber looked like the White House pressroom, with a dozen camera crews and a clutch of reporters seeking clues from Kerrey's typically elliptical ruminations. Sample: "This ((bill)) could be the first step towards something good or the first step towards something bad. This could be the first step to hell...