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Pat Sajak on the Lost Sayings of Deng On Feb. 19, China's 92-year-old "paramount leader," Deng Xiaoping, died. Many news organizations quoted his most famous aphorism, spoken during an argument...
...It is good to be poor and meek and humble, though being paramount leader is probably better...
...Dear Michael, I have a humongous favor to ask you," the former Barbarella wrote to Murphy, the Republican media whiz who worked on the Alexander and Dole campaigns...
...But President Clinton, visiting New York's leftie Riverside Church, found there's more to the story...
...But the president was only getting started...
...I'm tempted to show up anyway," the GOP Murphy continues, "but it would probably be a mistake...
...No one has so far accused the Republican party of raising a single dime of illegal money from foreign nationals, as the DNC seems quite clearly to have done on more than one occasion...
...Another great meeting of the minds goes by the boards...
...He asked the Globe to "show me one case where I compromised the public interest for a special interest...
...The best he could come up with was that students on welfare shouldn't be pulled out of college...
...Take a low-level job...
...It is the distance between its head and its feet...
...Several hours after his Globe interview, Clinton spoke at a fund-raising dinner for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in New York City...
...Making people work for benefits is "like a form of slavery," she said...
...It seems that Fonda chairs a campaign run by Husband Ted's Turner Foundation to reduce teen pregnancy in Georgia...
...Sociologist William Julius Williams created a cottage industry with books and articles blaming the bulging welfare rolls on the absence of jobs...
...Gajdusek pleaded guilty to two counts involving sexual contact with one of his adopted sons from Micronesia, and in a signed statement he admitted sexual contact with a second teenage Micronesian in his care...
...24 Scrapbook, "Good News for CCRI," unwittingly made the good news sound better than it was...
...Welfare Beats Working If only there were jobs—that's been the liberal lament for decades on why so many of the poor linger on welfare...
...In exchange for the plea, state and federal authorities agreed to end all further investigations into his activities...
...One cannot rebroadcast without the express written consent of Major League Baseball...
...It is where we will spend the bulk of our days...
...7, 1996, issue, negotiated a settlement with the prosecutor last week...
...Correction_ An item in our Feb...
...Not a chance, welfare recipient Nilda Roman told Clinton...
...Interesting morality, that: what's bad for the Democratic party, apparently, cannot be moral...
...Not quite...
...Many news organizations quoted his most famous aphorism, spoken during an argument with Mao over farm policies: "Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference...
...Jane Fonda Strikes out_ Imagine Mike Murphy's excitement when he received a personal letter, on recycled paper, from jane Fonda...
...An appeals panel declined to take that step and instead took what could prove to be a bigger one: assuming future jurisdiction of the entire case from Henderson—while criticizing his reasoning from the bench...
...But the problem is that this Mike Murphy was never in any Batman movies...
...whitewater or Newt or Hanoi could come up, and well, let's just say it's probably best for everybody that I decline...
...Indeed, Atlanta is so starved for glamor that, as Fonda adds, "the town went wild...
...I've seen women clean the toilets, and it's horrible and demeaning," she said...
...The child must be wary in all situations lest he put an eye out...
...We know that we did not raise as much foreign money...
...Those sent to work in mental hospitals face the "most treacherous, most horrible places in the world...
...This is fabulously false...
...The heat is not nearly as important as is the humidity...
...I could tell 'em I was the guy in the penguin suit or something, but we better play it safe...
...as the other party does," he said...
...Murphy responded on paper that does not appear to be recycled...
...Gajdusek Guilty Nobel scientist Carleton Gajdusek, whose travel diaries were the subject of a special report by Claudia Winkler in our Oct...
...Sajak has helpfully collected for us...
...President...
...And he was asked why he hadn't placed stricter rules on future Democratic money-grubbing...
...at last year's Twister premiere...
...Practically in the next breath, Clinton asked the same contributors to help get the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform legislation passed...
...Now can you explain to me how that will be setting a moral example if I made the Democrats even more vulnerable than they are now...
...Clinton was thunderstruck...
...She promises that Murphy won't have to be stuck there long: "You would be out the next day . . . back to wherever you wanted to be...
...Fonda makes clear that she knows her husband's hometown is a bit of a cow pasture: "This is a big deal in Atlanta which hasn't had glamorous premieres since Gone with the Wind...
...we know that hope is the best contraceptive [!!!], so we are replicating programs that help young people and their parents start small businesses," she writes...
...He praised the party's $25,000 "soft-money" contributors for joining him despite "knowing you might be targeted for the exercise of your constitutional right to stand up and support" Democrats with cash...
...It sounds like a cool event...
...Another Clinton Whopper President Clinton sat for an extended interview with editors and reporters from the Boston Globe last week...
...Okay: How about when your White House let a Chinese arms merchant into the Oval Office at the behest of a party donor, Mr...
...And I am flattered by the offer to fly me to Atlanta," he says...
...I'd be standing there with all the Batman cast members, and somebody might notice that I wasn't in any of the movies...
...Now 73, Gajdusek will spend nine months to a year in a Frederick County, Md., jail, followed by five years' probation during which he will be free to leave the country...
...Worse, some must work as janitors...
...Highlights include: It is not the height of the giraffe that makes it great...
...Fonda is hoping the stars of previous Batman movies might make it to Atlanta for a Batman reunion...
...Clinton wasn't biting...
...As long as it catches mice, it is a good cat...
...And who knows what would happen if I had a few too many glasses of free champagne...
...Clinton sputtered...
...He was being quizzed about the fund-raising scandals now engulfing his party...
...It seems that the stars of the movie will all be overseas, so Ms...
...Pat Sajak writes to the Scrapbook, "One can only stand in awe in the presence of such insight, and search for meaning in some of Deng's lesser-known quotations," which Mr...
...He grew "visibly angered...
...That bill, our readers know, would gut the constitutional right the president had just finished celebrating...
...We must know the future...
...The paper described the president as "uncharacteristically on edge, his face occasionally growing red...
...The humongous favor she asks is that Murphy attend a premiere of the movie Batman and Robin in Atlanta...
...That was the other Michael Murphy, the actor...
...We suggested that one of Judge Thelton Henderson's two edicts blocking California's new anti-preferences law had been overturned...
...When a man does something and it hurts, he should not do that...
Vol. 2 • March 1997 • No. 24
