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...evening, calling the plan "burdened with deep budget cuts and structural changes that fall short of real reform." But he quickly reiterated his longstanding commitment to welfare reform, pledging to work with congressional Republicans "to enact real, bipartisan welfare reform." Lacking the votes to override Clinton's veto, his 12th, the reaction from Republican congressional leaders was anything but sanguine. "He must now demonstrate what he is for," House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Vetoes Welfare Bill | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 2 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...lively, charming, beautiful girl. She was so full of love." The prince visited several times, bringing stuffed animals or clothes; the little princess responded with thank-you notes and pictures. Michael's most handsome offer arrived in late 1993: he would pay Elisa's full tuition, through 12th grade, at the Brooklyn Friends School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Conservative Jonathan D. Spampinato, who is in 12th place with 461 votes, said the conservative Alliance for Change was unable to induce supporters to vote its entire slate...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl and C.r. Mcfadden, S | Title: Voters Elect Reeves, Civic Association Candidates | 11/9/1995 | See Source »

...literature with her own rating: A, for adultery. She had an affair with the colony's preacher (Gary Oldman) and, while enduring her public shame, fought off the pernitions of her long-lost husband Roger (Robert Duvall). But this plot doesn't kick in until about the 11th or 12th hour of the film. Director Roland Joffe dwells instead on the nude bodies of Moore (caressing herself) and Oldman (skinny-dipping) as Hester and the Rev fall in lust. And stay around for their epochally silly sex scene. It makes Hester's secret seem more like Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A SCARLET FOR THE UNLETTERED | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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