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...1980s at which he raised the idea of overhauling the program as a way to cut the deficit--and a top Reagan Administration official pretended to have suddenly gone deaf. Years later, Moore brought it up as Newt Gingrich and his wrecking crew were drafting the Contract with America, which would be their manifesto for taking over the House. Again, no sale. "It was one thing every Republican said was off the table--even these revolutionary Republicans," Moore recalls. So he was more than a little shocked when he went to Austin in 1999 to meet the Texas Governor...
Democrats have darker views of Bush's motives, saying it has been a long-standing Republican goal to dismantle the vestiges of the New Deal and the basic contract it struck between the government and its citizens. They also contend it is perfectly in keeping with everything they know about Bush that he would create the mirage of pending catastrophe to achieve that goal. "We have an Administration that falsely hypes almost every issue as a crisis," the liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy said in a speech last Wednesday, which happened to be the same day the Washington Post...
...Line (and this magazine); Viacom, with its Paramount and MTV divisions; and 20th Century Fox, which is mostly owned by News Corp. Big-name actors like James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Dave Chappelle of Chappelle's Show are grabbing for a bigger piece of the DVD pie during contract negotiations. --By Barbara Kiviat
...Shea Stadium will save Pedro Martinez or how many days Randy Johnson will spend on the DL in ‘05, crack open a beer for Curt Flood, the patron saint of free agents. If he hadn’t courageously challenged the reserve clause in his contract in 1970, players might still be restricted to spending their entire career with one team...
...have enough expensive, aging stars, they finally succeeded this past week in acquiring Randy Johnson, who will be one of the top five pitchers in the AL but will earn a whopping $48 million from New York. Johnson will be 44 years old by the time his contract ends...