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...temperatures dropped well below freezing last weekend, homeless people around Harvard Square searched for new ways to stay warm and healthy despite the bitter cold...
Even if that much is granted, Romano's rhetorical conceit has brought dozens of mostly angry letters to the Nation, demands for an apology from two men's antirape groups and an escalating campaign of bitter counterpunching from MacKinnon and her supporters. "Carlin Romano should be held accountable for what he did," MacKinnon threatened last week in the Washington Post. "There are a lot of people out there, and a lot of ways that can be done...
Altogether, it seems as if the President, the First Lady and their aides have forgotten everything they learned about damage control during the bitter campaign of 1992. Old Washington hands point out that suspicions of hiding a scandal usually hurt a President far more than the scandal itself. That seems especially true in this case. The affairs of Whitewater and its partners -- the Clintons, James McDougal, the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, and his wife Susan -- were so convoluted that they defy quick summary. Even the questions that the dealings raise are too complex...
...story of why the White House is now supporting a dramatic exception to Clinton's philosophy is a tale of bureaucratic intrigue, complete with bitter recriminations between the White House and HHS. The tale began late on Dec. 23. Congress had earlier allowed for the possibility of federally funded abortions in the cases of rape and incest, an expansion of its long-standing mandate to pay when the mother's life is endangered. After dawdling for months, HHS decided that the new law meant states must fund such abortions or risk losing their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration...
...Neill's family hugged in the bitter wind as pall-bearers carried his flag-draped coffin up the church steps...