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...used judgeships as political payoffs less often than either Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown or Jerry Brown, the father and son who served immediately before and after him. Even a Carter campaign aide concedes: "You can't go after Reagan for appointing bad judges. That's a bum rap...
Asked about foreign policy differences among officials in his Administration, Carter first denied that there were any, then took the occasion to rap his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, said Carter, "is kind of feisty. He's aggressive. He's innovative. He puts forth bright ideas, some of which have to be discarded." But Carter then dealt far more harshly with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said the President: "I see Ed Muskie as being a much stronger and more statesmanlike ... figure who will be a more evocative spokesman for our nation's foreign policy...
Northeastern did rap out a homer, two triples and a double, but the latter three require an explanation. Unaccustomed to playing on Parsons Field's bizarre half-grass, half-astroturf outfield, Crimson gardeners Chalie Santos-Buch and Paul Scheper misjudged high-bouncing base hits and the Huskies picked up two of their four runs as a result...
...them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver's license. Or an aristocratic homosexual cruiser who solicits a cop. Or a kid so simple that he sets himself up for a drug rap. Kennedy's friends and co-workers are equally indelible: a colleague with whom he shares an addiction to the Red Sox, a gabby investigator named Bad Eye Mulvey, and a weary cop who specializes in the genealogy...
Confronted with the cold biographical facts, Lead Guitarist Johnny Ramone clams up like a good JD facing his first joyride rap. "We never say our real names," he allows with teasing stubbornness that combines the flirtatiousness of a starlet who has just been asked her age and the sacred silence of a button man pleading the Fifth. If pressed, Johnny will elaborate: "We can't subject our parents to this. I never told them in the beginning about the band. They'd have said, 'Stop this, you can't even play a song.' I waited...