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Remember those first years on your own? the odd, little apartment, the bricks-and-boards bookcase, the $700 jalopy, the chili dinners. You were living on the edge of poverty, and yet you were delighted to be managing on your...
...follow this odd couple's progress for a few minutes. Flashman trawls Mirage with him to the Studios USA stand (formerly Universal TV). There Flashman spots Maury Povich posing for cameras and offering pithy sound bites about the art of TV. Flashman sees the opportunity. He pushed Mirage towards the leathery-faced host and bellows out "Hey, Maury! You like Asian women! Whatcha think of her?!" Povich, who is, of course, married to TV anchor Connie Chung, shudders and moves away as rapidly as he can. I ask Flashman if his approach had perhaps lacked subtlety. "You gotta hustle...
...very sorry for this very odd disruption," said Registrar Arlene F. Becella...
...odd way, the Ashcroft hearings also have been about this nexus between private behavior and public virtue. No one is claiming that Ashcroft himself is anything but a paragon of virtue in his private life. Judge Ronnie White, the black jurist blocked by Ashcroft from ascending the judicial ladder, says that he does not believe the man is a racist. But at some level, what irks Ashcroft's critics is that there is some discrepancy between his private virtue and his public life. He preaches tolerance in private but may not practice it in public. He preaches love...
...whom more than half of Americans say they will not miss), has shed a hundred tears for the cameras in his eight years in office. But in a tight seven-and-a-half-minute nationally televised thank-you speech to the American people that was, Clinton insisted with an odd redundance, his last speech "from the Oval Office as your president" (will he sneak back in while Bush is in Europe?), the eyes did not moisten. The lip did not quiver. The naked love of politics did not leap from his face as it did during his valedictory...