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...block the mine, and Clinton still has the political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they'd have to clean it up and send it back." Hopefully sometime before NATO has to start dropping water balloons...
...earned him more bruises than badges of honor. He's known mostly for his unsuccessful efforts to reform the nation's campaign-finance laws and to curtail teenage smoking, both of which infuriated party leaders and rankled many of McCain's colleagues. And the Senator's long battle against pork-barrel spending has earned him few friends on Capitol Hill. "I don't believe I'm going to win Miss Congeniality," the Senator told TIME recently. "But I also don't think this campaign is going to be decided by the endorsements of Congressmen, Senators and Governors...
...Memorial Church under the auspices of Peter J. Gomes. Reverend Gomes has gotten me hooked. He said "show up." And then he said, "feel guilty." Then I have to go see [Bill] Clinton. You might know who he is. We are all going to Washington to have Clinton's pork dinner. It's a recipe that has been around for five generations that he is going to inflict on us. And I'll be there and Clinton will cook it--this pork dinner and its mysterious recipe. and that...
...first final club, the Porcellian, began in 1791 when Southern students would gather together to have roast pork dinners to feel at home...
Other interests eagerly crashed the party, seeing the banana dispute as a chance to settle old scores. U.S. pork producers, suffering through a severe price slump, sought to block the import of Italian hams like prosciutto. "The E.U. has closed off much of its market to us," reasoned Nick Giordano, a lawyer at the National Pork Producers Council. "We're looking for reciprocity, and one way to get it is nicking them on bananas." The council got pork added to the hit list. The hog farmers pushed to nail Dutch and Danish ham producers. But because those two countries...