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...other side, of course. That's the spin that both President Clinton and Republican leaders put on the compromise that formally reopened the Federal Government after a bitter six-day budgetary impasse. Republicans gloated that the deal commits the President to a seven-year time frame for a balanced budget. The President and his aides happily pointed out that the agreement requires Congress to respect White House priorities on such matters as Medicare, education, environmental protection and taxes...
...PERILS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE'' [SOCIETY, Nov. 6] was a sarcastic, bitter and misleading denigration of a positive, empowering and growing movement toward living a less complicated life. Simplicity isn't just a "new fad,'' but its time may have come. A growing number of people are realizing that working more, earning more, doing more and owning more do not result in greater happiness or an increased sense of well-being. It's been said, "We are spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.'' Voluntary simplicity, living...
...huge voter turnout was expected in Ireland on a referendum to make divorce legal. TIME's Tony Connelly reports from Dublin: "This has been a passionate and bitter campaign, and the vote should be very, very close. The "No" campaign opposing the legalization of divorce has been gaining momentum in recent months. In May of this year, 72 percent polled were in favor of the referendum; but by last week, that number had been reduced to about 45 percent. The opposition has been based in part on the notion that people could be divorced against their will. In the cities...
Precisely 100 years ago, there actually was no contest on the gridiron between the two arch-rivals. A bitter dispute over a violent 1894 matchup caused a two-year feud that prevented the 20th and 21st Games from going forward...
...result, suggestions that he is cool to a bid spread like wildfire through Republican circles last week, which had to come as a bitter comfort to Bob Dole. Here is a man who, if the polls are right, could lose the job he wants so much to a man not sure he wants it at all. The whole Powell drama has been one long nightmare for Dole, especially as leader of a party that is rarely inclined to flirt with renegades or derail front runners. Dole has polled Republicans nationally about Powell. "Like to know what...