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[Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes] Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there. |
[After the end of her term in Congress, Barbara Jordan was recruited for a faculty position at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.] I thought, now what better thing could I do than to go there, ... to the University of Texas, to the LBJ School and help those young people become the bright leaders of government as Lyndon Johnson so wanted? |
[Because the Christian Democrats finished first, they will get the first crack at putting together a new government in negotiations with other parties, a process that could take days or even weeks.] We had hoped for a better result, ... The campaign is over, and now we need to create a stable government for the people of Germany. This is our mandate. |
[Bill O'Meara grew up in Norwood, and now is a retired executive and investor with residences in Florida and Boston. For him and his wife, finding a place to come back to for part of the year] has been sort of a dream in the back of our minds, ... When I saw this project in the paper, I said, 'Now that's unique... It really captures the imagination.' |
[But now, in January 1998, the danger was greater -- and the stakes so much higher -- than they had ever been. Over the phone, Dick Morris suggested to the President there was a way out of his current dilemma.] Look, Bill, I think the American people will forgive you, ... Why don't you let me take a poll on this? We'll see what the mood is out there. |
[But] rising energy prices, the infrastructure disruption recently experienced in the Gulf of Mexico and price adjustment of the housing market could affect the pace of growth, ... Given this scenario, we at the Federal Reserve will do our part to help sustain that growth by pursuing a monetary policy that preserves price stability for the long term. |
[Clark said he reviewed local data on black farmers and USDA lending patterns by race, and figured out how much Miller could have made if he had received the same loans as neighboring white farmers.] I looked at a similarly situated white farmer, ... His growth trends compared to Mr. Miller's growth trends. [The white farmer] was a lot further along. |
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[Glover's column noted that many reporters know where Blair is but that] Downing Street has strongly requested that his whereabouts on holiday not be revealed for security reasons. ... Is he snorkeling off the coast of Iceland? Is he big-game hunting in Africa? Is he thrashing his way through the Amazonian jungle? . . . Alas, I am not allowed to say. |
[Habersham, in Burton, follows these principles and was designed by new urbanism pioneers Duany-Plater-Zyberk, the same planners responsible for Rosemary Beach and Seaside on the Florida panhandle.] People are going to move here; the question is: Do we want to spread them all over the county or cluster them? ... We have to accept it and deal with it. |
[He did. In focusing so intently on things people might be carrying,] I think we probably overreacted, ... Does anybody truly think you could take over an airplane with fingernail clippers, nail files, cuticle scissors? The answer is absolutely not. We need to move from looking for weapons to paying attention to people who are or could be terrorists. |
[He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of people, ... I lost my temper and I went for him. Later I discovered he was a charming social personality and very warm, and I was surprised to learn that he was a life member of the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). |
[He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia.] The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously. |
[In fact, Windows CE has been blamed for the lackluster acceptance of keyboarded handhelds in general, which some analysts say aren't useful for much other than e-mail retrieval.] When are they going to get it to work right with a server as opposed to a desktop? ... And when are they going to get an adequate set of personal productivity applications? |