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...purchasing alliances," "payroll taxes" and "employer mandates," all in an effort to invent the plan that will eventually supplant the Clintons' hopelessly complicated 1,342-page proposal. The lawmakers all know the President is intractable on only one point: universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk at a plan that is too bureaucratic, too byzantine or too pricey for taxpayers. And each hopes to make the books as the brains behind historic legislation. Not surprisingly, all of this is rapidly giving way to a bloody clash of egos...
Despite the global shudder, the betting is that Yeltsin will lurch forward with his economic and social agenda, his hand strengthened by new constitutional powers. Now, when legislators balk three times at his choice of a Prime Minister, he can call new elections. He can also select his government in sole consultation with the Prime Minister. That makes it unlikely that Yeltsin will offer a post to anyone in Zhirinovsky's camp. If Yeltsin doesn't like a piece of legislation, Deputies will have to corral a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override his veto...
...asked his students not to defecate in public hallways and to clean up their mess if they did. Clearly, this is not a University that cares how dumb it looks. So what could motivate two College administrators to agree that an "Assassin" game sounded like good, clean fun, but balk a few days later...
...comfort in asperity overrule calculation--even cynical calculation. How can Israel deal with the PLO, he asks--its untouchable status is part of the architecture. It is to Israel's advantage to have a PLO whose legitimacy is grounded in its special relationship to Israel; still, the hard-liners balk. Recognizing the PLO, though it opens up tremendous possibilities, could upset the House Likud Built...
...quite there yet. A somewhat recast, restaged and even rewritten version started previews last week at Washington's Kennedy Center, to standing ovations, but will not arrive on Broadway until late November. There it faces a tough fight. Ticket buyers may balk at the $100 top price for the two shows. Critics may stress the unsubtle, almost cartoonish nature of some of the characters and acting, rather than focus on the mounting and ultimately overwhelming power of the narrative. Even if everyone lauds the show, it may share the fate of the 1990 Tony Award-winning adaptation of The Grapes...