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...White House sent other small but unmistakable signals of its displeasure to G.O.P. renegades. Two nights before the vote, Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula had planned to impress some constituents by taking them to the presidential box at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to see a play. But that afternoon he got a call from the White House congressional liaison office inquiring about his position on the budget plan. "Leaning against," he replied. His tickets were canceled. New York Congressman Gerald Solomon complained that Bush had telephoned him at his home at 6:45 a.m. to solicit his support...
...Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets are either too strong or too weak, never just right. In fact, the reader decides, the men are handsome fakes, big-jawed 42 regulars snipped from a Ralph Lauren ad to act out Dinah's problem. They meet Dinah in a fake world, where no one has money troubles and there's nothing between Los Angeles and East Hampton...
Wideman's narrator, known as Cudjoe, is a mask for the 49-year-old author. Fiction and fact are freely blended; the style is a mix of directness and allusion reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Cudjoe, in fact, is invisible to himself. He has been an expatriate, living on a Greek island where he tended bar by day and tried to write at night...
Members of the undergraduate Committee on University Practices (COUP) have teamed up with the Ralph Nader-sponsored group Harvard Watch to monitor the selection process and press administrators to address student concerns, said COUP member Katherine J. Plummer...
Coming off a 71 percent to 29 percent victory over Beeferman, Thompson faces little-known independent Ralph Lopez in the November general election...