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...idea of presidential ignorance takes hold, the press and Congress will have a field day portraying Bush as a lightweight. Nonetheless, it could permit Bush to accommodate a "newly perceived reality" and then allow him to abandon his "no new taxes" promise. If so, the President will undoubtedly be glad to take a passing hit for having been misinformed. Bush survived Iran- contra, when reporters and adversaries were rooting around in his record to prove his complicity. He is even more likely to survive an Ignorance Sting, since most responsible Congressmen and economists have been hoping that he will somehow...
...TRAVELING WILBURYS: TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOLUME ONE (Wilbury). In transparent disguise, some rock heavyweights -- including Bob Dylan, George Harrison and the lamented Roy Orbison -- turn out the most infectious lightweight pop of the year...
Negotiations appeared to collapse last Monday, when Drexel's board of directors voted against a settlement. Joseph boasted that his staff had sifted through 1.5 million Drexel documents without finding any incriminating evidence. A former lightweight boxing champion at Harvard, Joseph insisted that the best defense against a heavy punch is "to come back at your opponent smiling...
...movement is being helped by dramatic advances in equipment and prostheses. Says Kirk Bauer, executive director of NHSRA: "The top is literally being blown off of what we can do because of the new high-tech equipment." Ten years ago, wheelchairs were unwieldy 50-lb. clunkers. Now, thanks to lightweight steel alloys and thin high-pressurized tires, they are sleek and maneuverable chariots, weighing a mere 10 lbs. Space-age plastics and other materials have made artificial legs and feet lighter, stronger, more flexible and resilient, and much more comfortable to wear. At least six models of prosthetic feet...
Trevino, no lightweight himself, is out of the van and running a couple of hours later when a gang of smugglers has been tracked to a mesquite thicket. Suddenly shots ring out and bullets buzz overhead. There is shouting in English and Spanish. One armed suspect has been shot in the arm and another captured unhurt along with a dozen bags of marijuana, worth about $250,000 in south Texas (and about twice that in New York). Judging by the haul recovered from the brush, eight or nine other "mules" made it back to the river. It is the third...