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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13PRESIDENTIAL UPCHUCK SCORECARD
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Winners
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- BARBARA BUSH: For grace and good humor that defused a
- frightening situation. Anyone who doubted that the President was
- all right was immediately reassured by Mrs. Bush's decision to
- stay at the dinner when he had to leave.
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- KIICHI MIYAZAWA: For cradling the President's head as Bush
- vomited on him and later dismissing the incident as absolutely
- "normal."
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- PRESIDENT BUSH: For his quip on the floor: "Why don't you
- just roll me under the table and let me sleep it off?"
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- U.S. TRADE BALANCE: After that, the Japanese delegation
- could hardly let him go home with nothing.
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- CHICKEN SOUP: Goes down easy when you're queasy.
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- Losers
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- JAPANESE HANDLERS: For panicking and manhandling the
- press, creating a false sense of crisis.
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- CNN HEADLINE NEWS: For coming within a nanosecond of
- swallowing a phony report that Bush had died; to his credit, a
- CNN worker threw caution to the winds, shouting "No! Stop!
- Stop!" in the newsroom as anchor Don Harrison began to announce
- the "tragic news involving President Bush."
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- PRESIDENT BUSH: How'd you like to have millions -- maybe
- billions -- see you tossing your diplomatic cookies?
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- DOUBLES WITH THE EMPEROR: Next time, take a rain check.
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- JAPANESE RESTAURANTS: Everyone's first thought: It was
- that sushi, wasn't it?
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