This snippet is from a "color" piece, describing the mood in
Washington during the impeachment trial.
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> Soon, as separate senators went about their talkative bits of
> preferred business, the now familiar trial bustle began outside
> the chamber. Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina,
> wheeled quickly around a corridor corner in his motorized
> wheelchair and almost collided with the hand-powered wheelchair
> of Charles F. C. Ruff, the White House counsel arriving for
> another day of the momentous trial.
>
> Great mutual amusement ensued, as if at a friendly village
> crossroads, and the two went their separate ways. Just so,
> witnesses could imagine ordinary life going on beyond the
> trial, unimpeachable mishaps, small encounters, not grueling
> struggles.
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January 21, 1999
Before Trial, Indulgence in Hoary Rite of Oratory
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
copyright 1999 New York Times.
Wheelchair traffic jams are a metaphor for ordinary life!
Certainly in my life they are. I offer it here to provide a
glimmer that some writers are getting it.
Jesse the K -- 43:04N 89:24W Madison WI USA -- <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Nothing clever to say here. Really.
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