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...story revolves around David Williams, an American history professor under siege by his colleagues and the board of trustees for his refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Played by Jason Cooper, David evinces all the moist-eyed idealism of a true patriot; in both his home and classroom, he has large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures...
...George Mitchell as majority leader, the upper chamber's top job. Daschle's shrewd strategy: woo influential incumbent Senators as well as rising Democratic stars who seem likely to ascend to the Senate come November. Among Daschle's targets are two of his former House colleagues, Tennessee's Jim Cooper and Missouri's Alan Wheat...
...mention rancorously. House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, whose stalled plan was upstaged at a moment when he is running hard to capture the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Gore, said dismissively that a bill that passes in committee "by a one-vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn...
Actually, what the Stark bill does is play to the same crucial audience that Cooper's plan targets: small-business owners, who are worried that mandatory health costs could force them out of business. This group is now the focus of others' attention as well. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has begun circulating another proposal, similar to Stark's, which Cooper complains is a narrow effort designed simply to win half a dozen Democratic swing votes...
Sitting beside Magic on the bench, along with Cooper, are James Worthy and Kareem Abdul Jabaar. Kareem's unsucessful attmept at a movie career--there are only so many Airplane movies that can be made--has convinced him it's time to join the coaching ranks...