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...they will gain the 20 seats they need to capture the majority. And the chances of that happening, say political analysts like Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution, are as high as fifty-fifty. Republicans are already sounding the alarms, portraying Gephardt and his "radical roster" of paleoliberal committee chairmen in the grimmest terms. "We're the only thing that stands between Clinton and devastation," says California Congressman David Dreier...
...chairmen of an earlier bipartisan commission on Social Security did send Clinton a plan for some long-range reforms in that system; he ignored it. Meanwhile, the President has been proposing what would amount to an entitlement to two years of college education, to be financed by a $1,500-a-year tuition tax credit. The cost would be modest--an estimated $8 billion over six years--and the President has offered specific revenue increases and spending cuts to meet it. All the same, talking up a new entitlement is no way to prepare citizens for the painful future steps...
Warner Bros. co-chairmen Robert Daly and Terry Semel were seen in the industry as Canton's sharpest critics. But this month they agreed to pay Arnold Schwarzenegger $25 million to appear as Mr. Freeze, the villain in the next Batman installment. Some executives are complaining that Warner is compounding the cost problem. Daly says the deal makes sense because Schwarzenegger's presence will boost the film's grosses, particularly overseas. Arnold is also taking "a lot less" of the film's gross profits than usual--he generally gets up to 20%--as well as a reduced share in profits...
...majority he led into Washington two years ago was the most impressive phalanx to enter the capital since the British came to burn it in 1814. As spearhead of the revolution his party was supposed to effect, Gingrich equipped himself heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker since Joe Cannon of Illinois in the early years of this century...
...voice thick with emotion, said, "I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people and nowhere to go but the White House or home." In front of his Senate colleagues, with whom he is far more comfortable trading quips about subcommittee chairmen, he sounded positively Reaganesque. While his colleagues looked on in sadness, Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before you without office or authority, a private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man." He said he would...