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...veto, he charged onto the virtually empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. Hours later, when Gingrich appeared for a press conference, he had a prepared text in hand, as if trying to regain his composure...
When he finally did, on a cold Wednesday afternoon in the kind of soulless hotel ballroom where campaigns go to die, his friends had never seen him look so sad. In his graceful exit speech, they heard all the qualities and contradictions that have made Powell's character and career so fascinating: a military man with a social conscience; a black New Yorker who attracted white Southern voters and Wasp CEOs like lint; the man who kept gays out of the military but endorsed gay parents as long as they create a home with love and discipline; a geology major...
Stay on I-91 South until the end; do not get onto I-95. The highway ends in New Haven; take Exit 1 for downtown connector. Take Exit 3 off the connector for York Street. Contuining on York Street leads into the heart of downtown and the edge of Old Campus on Chapel Street...
...avoid the shutdown," Gingrich said. "Every president we had ever flown with had us up front. Every president we had every flown with had talked to us at length." To add insult to injury, the House Speaker and Majority Leader were eventually herded out through the plane's rear exit. "You just wonder where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy," Gingrich fumed. "Was it just a sign of utter incompetence or lack of consideration, or was it a deliberate strategy of insult? I don't know which...
...Boutros Boutros-Ghali enduring jeers on the streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...