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...WHILE IT SOUNDED LIKE A REVERSE AUCTION IN billions: 16, 13, 8, 6 . . . In reality, though, all the compromise figures bruited around were hollow. The 43 Republican Senators were adamant, and the Democrats did not have the votes to break their filibuster. After repeated failures they gave up and accepted a simple $4 billion extension of unemployment benefits -- a shrunken remnant of the President's $16 billion economic-stimulus package. It was Clinton's first significant loss in Congress, and it demonstrated that to get his programs passed, he must either win over some Republicans or raise enough public clamor...
Shapiro is eight years into a related addiction, Rotisserie League Baseball, invented by LIFE managing editor Dan Okrent and named for a defunct Manhattan restaurant. This week Shapiro joins 11 otherwise sane "club owners" at a tavern for a fantasy auction of every player in the American League. The pennant winner shows the best aggregate statistics at season's end. Shapiro hopes that reporting for this week's story will give him a scouting edge...
BEST KNOWN AS A PORTRAIT OF A BLACK LEADER'S LIFE, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X was meant to contain a 14-point economic plan for black America. The plan is spelled out in one of four unpublished chapters of the manuscript, bought several months ago at an auction of Alex Haley's estate by a Detroit lawyer, Gregory J. Reed. In a chapter titled "20 Millions" (referring to the number of blacks in America), Malcolm sketches a step-by-step program for establishing black schools, libraries and banks. "For the first time, the White man would see the Black...
House Masters Jurij and Emanuela Striedter say that Cabot offers many opportunities for students to become involved in house activities. They mention the annual Dutch Auction, the Underground Theatre, the frequent dinner talks with famous speakers and the weekly Coffee Table as examples...
...battling abuse in other ways as well. She founded the Domestic Abuse Awareness Project to educate the public and raise funds for shelters. "I won't stop until women and children feel safe," says Ferrato. Another measure of her dedication: she paid $4,000 at a recent charity auction for the opportunity to have tea later this month with a woman she hopes will support the cause: Hillary Clinton...