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...General John Shalikashvili, nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave strong support for sending 50,000 American troops to help enforce a hypothetical Bosnian peace agreement -- a mission he estimated would cost $4 billion in the first year. The next day, Senate Armed Services chairman and chronic Clinton second- guesser Sam Nunn was skeptical, saying the Administration needed to establish specifically "what our goals are" in Bosnia and "how we get out if the parties begin fighting again...
...than it was then. Today every secular Muslim government from North Africa to the Persian Gulf faces a challenge from radical fundamentalists. Their accusation is not just that political leaders have strayed from the holy law of the Koran but that they have done so without solving the chronic unemployment, corruption and hopelessness that plague the Arab world...
Gortmaker began his study comparing youngadults with chronic illnesses, such as asthma, tothose who were overweight. He said he wassurprised to find that those suffering fromillness did relatively well, whereas overweightsubjects showed large deficiencies insocioeconomic status...
Safeguard the security and "portability" of health insurance, even for workers who change jobs, get laid off or develop chronic illnesses. Though 86% of Americans have health insurance, White House polls have shown that many people are anxious that they will lose their coverage because of layoffs or cutbacks in employer-provided insurance. The Clinton plan would ensure that workers can get insurance at any new employer, at comparable prices, even if they already need medical treatment...
...Cohn's shrinkage is not just a matter of his age, his distance from Wilshire Boulevard or his chronic breaches of etiquette. Rather, says a friend, "Sam was the king of artistic seriouness," and the appetite for serious films -- dark and downbeat, reeking of alienation -- is not what it was. In 1993, would studios green-light Lumet's Equus, Allen's Interiors, Altman's Quintet or Nichols' Carnal Knowledge? Cohn was a power broker during the decade or two when every movie director was by definition an untouchable auteur. Nowadays even true auteurs such as Scorsese are kept on rather...