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...Aug. 28, Health Net's Greaves and QualMed's Hasan formally agreed to merge their companies. The merger triggered a "termination agreement" under which Greaves would receive a lump-sum payment of $1.1 million because technically he had been terminated from his former positions--even though he became cochairman and co-chief executive of the parent of the merged companies, Health Systems International, a job that paid a base salary of $865,000. "I gave up my sole authority as president, chairman and ceo," says Greaves, "and my contract said if that happens you get paid out your contract...
Gingrich marshals his forces in a completely new way: by offering his colleagues glory instead of goodies. It was near midnight on the night of Aug. 3 when Gingrich faced the prospect of watching the revolution he had plotted for 20 years stall before his eyes. The measure he was pushing through the House was a crucial 1996 spending bill designed to slice everything from summer-jobs programs to home-heating assistance. But in the byzantine way Congress packages its legislation, the bill had become laden with several measures involving abortion, the rare issue where principle promised to trump politics...
...bare feet, hoping to buttonhole an aide into conversation or a reporter into doing yet another story on him. After Croatia's army overran the Serb-held region of Krajina in early August, he shuttled feverishly from one Balkan capital to another. He was pulled up short on Aug. 19 when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, but that tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...
Gramm unexpectedly tied Dole in the Iowa straw poll last Aug. 19. It was a fake contest, because participants had to pay $25 to attend (and therefore to vote), and anyone from anywhere--even outside Iowa--could play. Many did, as Gramm's campaign, especially, bused in hundreds of its faithful from out of state. "I spent $30,000 on the 1980 Iowa straw poll," Dole recalls, "and I came in third. I know all about buying that thing, and I should have bought it this time." What Dole didn't say is that the Doleites didn't want...