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Scrapbook Pennsylvania Avenue, Hello!: Just how bad are things for the Democrats? In an Oct. 19 appearance on Larry King Live, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of...
...Still better: He wanted to raise taxes even more than he did-and raise them on everyone...
...In July, the Post pointed out, Maryland Gov...
...The Reading List: George Orwell once said (we paraphrase) that some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them...
...Faced with a roomful of rich people in Texas last week, the president decided, as is his wont, to demonstrate his empathy with his audience...
...During the 1993 budget battles, he invariably defended the tax hike as a judicious way of correcting the favor-the-rich tax policies of the 1980s...
...18, could be Lamar Alexander...
...Leave it to a marketing expert to figure out what went wrong...
...Interesting...
...It would be extremely helpful to get some positive calls into the show tonight," the memo pleaded...
...Chris Dodd, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, discussed Bosnia and American race relations...
...During his journey, Gulliver makes a stop in the land of Laputa (Spanish for "whore"), whose residents have one eye that looks inside them and another that only looks up to the sky-so wrapped up in abstractions that they don't even know when they step in dung...
...Remember the $71 billion BTU tax that Capitol Hill's Democrats-not Republicans, Democrats-had to get rid of back in '93...
...The beautiful women of Vienna vow to seduce them from their path...
...I raised your taxes more than I wanted to" is "I feel your pain" for rich people...
...That undecided number also suggests there might be room for a certain general to announce for president, sweep into Orlando, and pull 25 percent himself, thus proving himself palatable to Republican primary voters...
...Scholarly young men vow to go without sleep, without bathing, and without the company of women until they have read every book ever written...
...No New Clintons: Bill Clinton's repudiation of his own 1993 tax increase, and then his semi-repudiation of his repudiation, again reveal his increasingly bizarre weakness for the unnecessary lie...
...Here are three works that put intellectuals in their place: Headlong Hall, by Thomas Love Peacock...
...It is a lie of many layers...
...If it was 350,000, none of them came to the harbor," restaurateur Yogi Kumar told the Washington Post...
...We lost a lot of money and a lot of food...
...Thanks very much for your help...
...Headlong Hall is filled with thinkers who are themselves filled with the latest intellectual fashions-"Perfectibilians" and "Deteriorationists" among them-whose desire always to be fresh and new seems remarkably similar to certain English professors we shall not name...
...We would agree with the president's mother, except he's probably making it up...
...He was targeting, quite explicitly, the very people to whom he now apologizes...
...You're welcome...
...As many as 35 percent of the delegates will arrive in Orlando uncommitted, which makes the debate between the candidates the night before the straw poll the first genuinely significant political event of the 1996 campaign...
...Papal Trinkets on Sale: Apparently, Baltimore merchants are angry because the pope just didn't sell like he was supposed to when he came to Charm City for a mass the other week...
...Each is polling between 20 and 25 percent...
...Phil Gramm, reeling from a story last week in the New York Times about the parlous state of his fundraising...
...Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare...
...Parris N. Glendening "applauded the pope's impending visit, saying state analysts projected a $19.1 million revenue windfall...
...Come On Along to Orlando: Republicans in Florida are saying that the big news, come Nov...
...So that's what led to the trouble-people were too busy praying and heeding the pope's words to allow consumerism to dominate their lives...
...We are trying to emphasize the positive role the Clinton Administration has played in dealing with this difficult foreign policy conflict, as well as other accomplishments in the administration...
...Written in 1815, Headlong Hall is one of the great little-known works of satire in English literature, a savage portrait of the circle around the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley-you know, the guy who said that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" and whose totalitarian vision of those legislators' running all our lives is the subject of Shelley's Heart, Charles McCarry's recent novel...
...The show starring this less than dynamic duo would have been forgettable, except for a DNC memo faxed to "Democratic Activists" a few hours before it aired...
...Joan Davidson, identified as "the marketing and sales manager for the company that manages the stores housed in two pavilions along the Inner Harbor," suggested that sales were low because "a majority of people had their energies focused on the holy father...
...It offers Alexander, among others, the opportunity to show he can move voters in his direction...
...A victory in Florida would begin a Lamar boom-let precisely at the moment you want a boomlet starting, just a few months before New Hampshire and Iowa cast their votes for real...
...They succeed...
...My mother once said I should never give a talk after 7:00 at night," the president said in extenuation, "especially if I'm tired...
...That day, 3,700 delegates show up in Orlando for Presidency III, the strange name the state party is giving to its straw poll, and private polling shows a tight race between the struggling Alexander, frontrunner Bob Dole, and Sen...
...it is almost baroque...
...The next time the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association decides to get excited about a dignitary coming to that fair city, it'll be for someone they can trust to keep the crowd's priorities straight- Madonna, maybe, or even O.J...
...Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift...
Vol. 1 • October 1995 • No. 7
