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...there was one event this summer that overshadowed the rest--the launch of Talk magazine. Now Talk has followed up the first effort with a second issue as it looks to secure a future on the racks at Barnes and Nobles around the country, not just in the fickle Beltway buzz...
...letter of the 1997 agreement. The spirit of that deal lies in tatters, of course; creative lawmakers have already have exempted nearly $28 billion in proposed spending from the caps ? largely through "emergency" spending ? even with only a 12-month year. That might be too expedient, even for the Beltway. "There are those in both parties who are saying, ?Enough is enough,?" says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Nobody wants to be the one to admit it, but the spending caps are going to have to be raised if Congress is ever going to do its books without...
Although most tourists are easy to pick out of a crowd--such staples of tourist gear like cameras and fanny packs instantly reveal their true nature--there are a few slippery ones who try to mask their true selves. Summer interns still adjusting to inside-the-beltway mores may fool other tourists, but locals can spot them for the alien creatures they...
...shame, though, and especially here, in this city. Outside the Beltway--which, as I learned my first day, is not a figure of speech but an actual highway that circles the city--the media figures probably seem as big as the politicians they cover. Sam Donaldson vs. Dennis Hastert--is there any doubt who's bigger? But walking the sidewalks of this city, with its overarching civic feel--statues, columns and marble, with its shifting tectonic plates of power, it is clear that the public officials, the lawmakers and those--in crisp suits, loud shoes and big grins--who would...
...moves as an attempt to pass an industry-protection act instead of a patient-protection act. The White House continues to send signals that it will veto the Republican bill if it emerges from Congress unchanged. "Clinton solidly believes that the defeated Democratic positions are controversial only inside the Beltway and that health care was one of the key issues that helped his party do well last November," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The President accordingly believes Democrats are well positioned: Even if he has to nix the bill, his party will get an issue...