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...close the deal. White House correspondent James Carney says the Administration should be pleased with the Speaker's offer. "If the deal is cut on these terms, it's a clear Clinton victory. This is what the White House has been pushing for." Why is Gingrich, after months of bitter budget brinkmanship, now ready to cut his losses and wait until November? "The Republicans have just gotten creamed on this issue over the past few months," Carney says. "They are rapidly losing public support, and they've got to get out of this mess as soon as possible. They cannot...
...people increased 62 percent from 1970 to 1992, while the number of foreign-trained medical graduates increased 80 percent from 1988 to 1993. For the same period, the number of U.S. medical school graduates remained steady at 17,500. "The debate about a possible oversupply of physicians masks a bitter labor controversy in the medical community," notes Health reporter Janice Castro. "Managed care firms hire many doctors trained in other countries, for one thing, in part because they are often more willing to work for less, and accept tough rules governing the way they care for patients. So do underfunded...
...Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The book is something I had to do for my soul." That may be all it's good for, notes TIME's John Elson. "Bradley writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being 'courtly.'" Never an accomplished orator, Bradley is scarcely more convincing a writer. "The book is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues," Elson says. "It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers...
...those waters seem bitter to some--cops who can't take Comstat's pressure, black and Latino leaders who say some of Bratton's cops carry his aggressive style too far--"that's too damn bad," says Bratton. Success isn't pretty, even for his troops. Effective precinct commanders such as Lawrence (crime was down 15% in his precinct in 1995) merely get grilled to a medium rare at Comstat. Those who show up unprepared, without coherent strategies to reduce crime, are fried crisp, then stripped of their commands. Half of all precinct bosses have been replaced under Bratton. Those...
...story that Moraes--nicknamed the Moor by his parents--most urgently wants to tell is how his "happy childhood in Paradise" ended in a bitter exile decreed by his mother Aurora da Gama Zogoiby, a famous painter and one of India's most controversial women. But since he is literally writing for time, the Moor throws in a whole lot more: everything he has heard or can remember or dream up about his mother's family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European...