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Since Cockburn cracked wise in 1982, the news business--especially the TV news business--has grown more aggressive and competitive.
On CNN's Capital Gang , Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal cracked that "Bush was a little bit Clintonian, flying back from Michigan to feel the pain."
A day later, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, told the Associated Press he had "cracked up" over Gore's claim: "If the vice president created the Internet, then I created the interstate highway system."
In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."
Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, "soft money," and other current arrangements some people don't care for.