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Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
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29, 2006 --
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22, 2006 --
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22, 2006 --
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22, 2006 -- Kevin
Millar is leaving Boston for the Baltimore Orioles. (But LPR heard
a report that Theo Epstein will be with the Red Sox, after all, this
season, which is not far off. according to a sign on Yankee Stadium
indicating that pitchers and catchers report in about three weeks.)
JANUARY
15, 2006 -- At Google,there
are more than 650 thousand search results for "Federalist 57." LPR
is on the first page, nos. 9 and 10. JANUARY
15, 2006 --
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15, 2006 --
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15, 2006 -- LPR
is still waiting for elected officials to comment on the "obscene" credit
card interest rates -- borrowing a word from Joseph Nocera's
column on greed in corporate suites. JANUARY
15, 2006 -- Mayor Bloomberg was reported to have spent some $84 million (his money) to win a second term in City Hall. JANUARY
15, 2006 -- … Newt.org., website of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for his insightful suggestions on reforming the Washington, D.C. political culture. LPR was interested to learn that Newt's latest op-ed piece, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, made a direct reference to Federalist 48, and its warning that the tendency of power to expand requires effective means to keep it in check. JANUARY
15, 2006 -- Jack
Bauer signaled via an All State commercial that former President
Palmer is okay. JANUARY
8, 2006 -- LPR
learned, Saturday evening -- via Yahoo--that Congressman Tom
DeLay was stepping down as House majority leader. LPR recommends
that the Republican successor to Mr. DeLay not delay using Federalist
57 as guideline to congressional reform. JANUARY
8, 2006 --
LPR heard a report on radio that Manny Ramirez wants to stay with the Red Sox. Considering the billboard outside Fenway Park showing him and the words "Keep the Faith" -- how could he have decided otherwise? JANUARY
8, 2006 -- This
banner announcing 75 years of radio broadcasts of Metropolitan
Opera performances indicates that broadcasts of Saturday matinees,
this season, are assured.
JANUARY
8, 2006 -- Notwithstanding the report that Ted Koppel is going to the Discovery Channel, LPR thinks that ABC News should get him back -- not only to save "Nightline" but to have a senior (no pun intended) correspondent who has interviewed acting Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, for many years, and made it possible for "Nightline" viewers to regard Olmert as a familiar face. |
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8, 2006 --
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8, 2006 -- Having
just been awarded a 28.24% interest rate JANUARY
8, 2006 -- LPR
had more than 81 thousand visits in 2005 and, early in the morning
January 5th, eastern standard time, reached the ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
mark. JANUARY
8, 2006 -- ...if the people who hated the late director Elia Kazan because he named names (to a congressional committee investigating communist influence in Hollywood) will express disgust with Jack Abramoff should he "name names" -- as part of a plea bargain. Please note: the offer of a lower sentence for giving information to prosecutors is not considered a bribe. JANUARY
8, 2006 -- … the
end of the 2nd Avenue delicatessen. At the southeast corner of Second
Avenue and 10th Street, the deli was a couple of blocks from Village
East Cinemas, home to the New York International Independent Film and
Video Festival. JANUARY
2, 2006 -- Newt
Gingrich, appearing on Face the Nation, January 1, told moderator Bob
Schieffer that the Republican party should be "the party of reform," and,
among other things, end government of the insiders, by the insiders
and for the insiders. He also suggested that Republicans could lose
their congressional majorities if they are JANUARY
1, 2006 -- Rolling
east on I-84
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1, 2006 -- The
Red Sox won in two thousand and four JANUARY
1, 2006 -- Super
Bowl III --the Jets, led by quarterback Joe Namath, defeating the Baltimore
Colts -- was held on January 12, 1969. This NFL season will conclude
with a February Super Bowl. NOTE
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