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...triumph of the Hollywood crowd in the White House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
...caveat before I proceed: this being October, I'm going to admit to the malaise that curiously befalls most Americans around this time of year, the playoff fever that makes us abdicate good judgment and sound priorities when baseball is t stake...
Ironically, the Columbia band web site was notaccessible until about 5 p.m. yesterday. However,the Lampoon does not admit to having a part inthis...
...learned something from it. Like any negotiator, he won't give up anything now that he can use later to extract concessions. He has stopped telling his friends that a censure deal is out of the question. He may drop the legal jitterbugging, but he's not ready to admit that he lied in either of his testimonies. That can come later. "Why should he give up perjury now if that's where we want to end up?" said one presidential associate...
...immediate provocation is nine dead Iranians, killed last month when Taliban warriors conquered Mazar-i-Sharif, a stronghold of Afghanistan's Shi'ite community. Only last week did Taliban leaders admit that eight diplomats and a journalist holed up in the Iranian consulate were massacred by the invaders. Iranian officials were equally upset by the defeat and reported slaughter of the city's Shi'ites. Tehran vowed revenge and announced last week that it was dispatching 200,000 troops for "maneuvers" on the Afghan border...