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Barbara will probably never sit in on Cabinet meetings a la Rosalynn Carter or get people fired, as Nancy did. But a spousal "Dear, I wouldn't do that if I were you," delivered with a raised eyebrow, can often defeat a stack of position papers. During Bush's postelection vacation, he was asked whether he had received any advice about his new job. He smiled broadly and pointed to his wife, standing nearby in tennis shoes and sweats. Barbara raised her eyebrows and said, "Just kidding." Replied Bush...
When I went back home over the break, I walked into a sports shop to buy a Cowboys cap. After the clerk stop laughing, he showed me a stack of caps. They looked like they hadn't been touched all year. He thought a brown, paper bag would be more appropiate for Dallas' fans. Everybody's a comedian now-a-days...
...received a stack of letters from San Diego fans, but will they be there with you when the Padres are down? As for Boston fans, remember the parade after the '86 series? They may be demanding, even unforgiving, but they love the Sox for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer. And yes, 'til death do us part...
Such appointments illustrate a truism pithily expressed by the counsel to Bush's transition team, C. Boyden Gray: "Personnel is policy." One outfit that has learned that lesson well is the Heritage Foundation, which last week deposited a ten-foot stack of resumes of some 2,500 would-be Bush appointees at the offices of the transition team. Sighed an already overloaded transition personnel director Chase Untermeyer: "What a wonderful gift...
...This competition allowed us to practice and properly prepare for Saturday's game at Yale where we'll see how we stack up against the Ivies," Harvard Assistant Coach Bill MacDonald said. "It gave us a better chance to look at the freshmen since we still haven't decided on the final slots. The freshmen will be important to the team, and we'll hear a lot from them...