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Congressman Jim Cooper is under attack by the White House -- and he's $ relishing every minute of it. "That's a special place of honor," he says. "It's the highest compliment you can be paid in politics." Actually, it's not the soft-spoken Tennessee Democrat himself who has rankled the Administration. It's Cooper's health-care plan, a centrist proposal that has become the clear favorite of the Democratic Leadership Council, the very forum that served as the launching pad for Clinton's assault on the Oval Office. "Who am I? I'm a nobody," Cooper demurs...
...Cooper's article on page 12, "Fat Isn't Funny," concludes, "...starvation, suffering, discrimination and social rejection are no laughing mater." Actually, Amy, add "beer" to that list, and you've got yourself some really funny hazing. Goooo, final clubs! Yeah...
...fast-forward to the prospect of adjudicating whether a person is fat enough to park in a handicapped space at the shopping mall or should continue to get preferential seating on airplanes? "There is not a legal cure for every wrong," says Fred Siegal, a political science professor at Cooper Union. "This is litigiousness run wild...
...Administration is hoping that the Democratic Leadership Council, the moderate group that helped PRESIDENT CLINTON'S election but has been ignored, will back away from the Cooper-Breaux health-care plan, the chief rival to the Clinton plan in Congress. With this in mind, Clinton will speak at the DLC's annual conference on Friday. It may be a tough sell: DLC president Al From has privately criticized the Clinton plan and said Ira Magaziner, the White Houses health guru, has a "Rasputin-like hold" on the President and Mrs. Clinton...
...think there is. We're going through a period when gay life and gay literature are being normalized. Of course there's a part of me that feels that outlaw status is preferable, and that there's an excitement that comes from that, and a writer like Dennis Cooper or Gary Indiana have a lot of fun playing the outsider--I think their work really thrives on those conditions. On the other hand, I feel in my own mind there's a clear division between my writing and the way I package it so that I'm never compromsing...