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Then came former Senator John Tower of Texas, who was rejected as Secretary of Defense in part for decades-old, unverifiable boozy womanizing. As for drug use, the other major area of press scrutiny, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas provides the most current guide. It is no longer disqualifying to have smoked marijuana as a student, especially if it was an experiment and was not enjoyed. Anyone who smoked in Vietnam actually scores points with the press...
...visitors a year. Historians, environmentalists and locals also joined forces against a commercial project planned for Chambord, one of the most illustrious of the Loire Valley chateaus. The castle was scheduled to become the site of a "Renaissance" theme park, with two hotels, shops, an artificial lake and a tower with a revolving restaurant...
...Tower of Babel" is what Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan calls the din surrounding U.S. food products. But if Americans are having trouble deciphering the language in food labels and advertising, just who or what is to blame? The food industry likes to point the finger at the Federal Government's regulatory swamp, while the government puts the onus on overzealous marketers. But in truth there is enough culpability for all. For years now, foodmakers and government regulators have been tangled up together in a web of sloppy practices and, above all, cozy politics. "Everything in nutrition...
...vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants to go to war, we're able to force Congress to go along. The only place the Democrats have really been able to hurt us is in the confirmation of appointees, as they did with John Tower. So we'd obviously like to avoid giving them more of that kind of opportunity...
They've got lots of company all across the country. At Tower stores nationwide, Efil4zaggin was the No. 2 seller for the week ending June 10; at Central South Music Sales, a Nashville-based distributorship, it was No. 1 for roughly the same period. Tom Myers of the Camelot Music shop in Springfield, Mo. -- whose patrons tend to be suburban kids rather than ghetto gang members -- says the similarly fast sales in his store "are very uncanny for a rap title...