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Here was Clinton at his best and worst, showing his serial sincerity, his sweet tooth for books, ideas, intimacy, an appetite that powers his presidency and also frustrates it. He leaves the impression of a man who thinks conversation is a form of leadership and speechmaking a form of decision making. It's hard to imagine such a session with Dole, beyond a tour of the Senate bill hopper. He has said he hasn't seen the movies he attacks. He is allergic to rumination. The emcee for his rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, warmed up the crowd by chanting, "Dole...
...fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely of Da Gama insanities, grudges and general bad behavior. "What an epidemic of getting-even runs through my tale, what a malaria cholera typhoid of eye-for-tooth and tit-for-tat! No wonder I have ended...
LONG IN THE TOOTH...
...life horror stories are making a big impression on Capitol Hill. House majority whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory reform, DeLay, Norwood and Ballenger are attempting to de-fang and defund their old bureaucratic nemeses. Yet a closer look at their...
Ever prepared to criticize the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Georgia Republican Norwood carries around a page of snappy "OSHA soundbites" in his briefcase. He says OSHA regulations regarding disposal of bloody medical waste prohibited him from giving children their extracted baby teeth for the tooth fairy. "Now I don't mean that the OSHA idiots said dentists may not give out baby teeth," Norwood says. "They said any item with blood on it is contaminated. Lawyers look at that and read it strictly, and it was the opinion of the American Dental Association that we can't give...