Esquire magazine's annual Dubious Achievement Awards are featured in the January 1995 issue.
Here are some of the award "winners" for 1994 and the reasons they earned the "honor":
* California's Gov. Pete Wilson. Nine bills that Mr. Wilson had intended to veto were left on a copy machine outside his office and became law.
* California Senate candidate Michael Huffington. After hugging a staff member who objected to his embrace, Mr. Huffington said, "I like to hug people. I'm a hugger. But I don't hug everybody. I just hug people who I think want to be hugged."
* Montana's Lt. Gov. Dennis Rehberg, who remarked, "The problem with AIDS is, you got it, you die. Why are we spending money on this issue?"
* Sen. Bob Dole. Claiming he wouldn't be too old to run for president in 1996, he said, "Every time I look at Strom Thurmond, I'm inspired ... When I see him eat a banana, I eat a banana."
* An Emergency Medical Service crew in New York. Crew members rushed an abandoned bag of spaghetti to the hospital after they mistook it for a fetus.
* An unnamed 37-year-old man in Ukraine. He seized a German Shepherd that had jumped him in a park and bit it to death in front of its owner.
* Last but not least, President Clinton. Describing the El Camino pickup truck he had as a young man, the president said, "It was a real sort of Southern deal. It had AstroTurf in the back. You don't want to know why."