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...Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who could challenge Gore for the Democratic nomination in 2000. In the House, another likely Gore rival, minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, this week will come out in favor of the Portman-Kerrey bill. Proponents are predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. "We're probably going to get killed on this," says a White House official. That doesn't seem to faze Rubin, whose stubbornness stands out in a city...
...spotlight beams which converged on the stage and performers from towers set up all around the stadium. Mist from fog generators hung over the stage, making the intricate network of crossing beams seem almost tangible, like a gigantic multi-colored jungle gym which danced and contorted itself with wild abandon. Above, an airplance flew in circles, tethered to the stadium by a bright rope of white light. Throughout the stadium, the twinkle of ushers' flashlights reminded one of the vastness of the venue, the vastness of the event, and the sense of all-encompassing spectacle was so great that even...
...kicked off a Metro-Dade arts board. Peggi McKinley was fired for saying officials should end their ban on Cuba-based artists performing at county-sponsored events. As a result of the law, the French-based organizers of a major Latin American and Caribbean music conference had threatened to abandon Miami as a future venue, a move that would cost the city millions of dollars. "As an American," Estefan wrote, "I am frightened to see our most basic liberties being trampled on in the march for political gain. As a Cuban American, I am embarrassed that non-Cubans might think...
After learning that placebos can range from inert pills to actual doctors, after discovering the distinctions between "disease" and "illness," "healing" and "curing," one can venture into the last half of the collection, where a veritable alphabet soup of terms lurk and psychosomatic explorations abound. Abandon all hope, ye who wrestled with the QRR and plan to enter here: inverse relations and normalized sets of data concerning placebo efficacy literally pepper the pages. Authors Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields even include an exponential function describing the placebo effect (Feeling intensity = Desire x Expectation...
...Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...