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When Powell finally did meet the President-elect for the first time, on Nov. 19, he came away impressed: "Clinton was self-assured, smart, curious, likable and passionate about his ideas.'' Powell never wavers far from that initial assessment (in the book, at least), but he offers a devastating critique of the Administration's modus operandi. National security meetings "meandered like graduate-student bull sessions ellipse Backbenchers sounded off with the authority of Cabinet officers. I was shocked one day to hear one of [National Security Adviser] Tony Lake's subordinates, who was there to take notes, argue with...
...preaches a single-minded, theologically tinted conservative message. Though Keyes registers less than 2% support in national polls of Republican voters (he came in fifth in last week's Iowa straw poll) and has a ramshackle organization, he has emerged as one of the campaign's most compelling--and curious--figures. He is , first of all, a political oxymoron, a black Republican ("The Invisible Man" is how he describes his life in the G.O.P.); a Harvard Ph.D. with a daily three-hour populist talk-radio show; and a black Roman Catholic whose principal appeal is to white Evangelicals...
Hughes' essay rests on the misguided liberal premise that the Federal Government equals America. The cover declares, WHY AMERICA SHOULDN'T KILL CULTURAL FUNDING." Inside, the story is titled, "Pulling the Fuse on Culture." It is curious that such an apocalyptic tone is generated in defense of agencies that did not even exist for the first 189 of the nation's 219 years. Even Hughes admits the federal share of cultural funding ($620 million) is dwarfed by the more than $9 billion in private-sector contributions. With some changes in tax law, total funding of the arts and humanities could...
...formation of hands and feet also control many other developmental processes in the posterior part of an animal -- among them, the addition of an anal opening to the digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This suggests to him that both structures -- the appendages for walking and the bony apparatus that anchors them to the spine -- are linked at some deep genetic level that is yet to be plumbed...
...event, which organizers called "Take Back the Penis," lasted about two hours and drew many inquiries and curious looks from passersby. But the men holding placards and signs took the rally very seriously...