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...surprise of his allies and his foes, the South Dakota Democrat has proved remarkably skillful at marshaling his outnumbered Senate forces into an almost insurmountable obstacle to the G.O.P. agenda. One by one, they have buried almost every item in the Contract with America. And where the G.O.P. has managed to get critical bills passed in the Senate--on welfare reform, for instance--the Democrats have generally reshaped them, sanding off enough of the ideological edges to sour the victory for many Republicans...
KAREN TUMULTY learned two years ago that Tom Daschle is not entirely the mild, cautious politician he pretends to be. As a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, she spent several days with the U.S. Senator in his home state, South Dakota. Never an enthusiastic flyer, she was dismayed one foggy night to learn that Daschle had booked them onto a tiny airplane. Even worse, he let her know with a big grin that he planned to pilot the craft himself. This week the tables are turned. Daschle is Clinton's point man on Capitol Hill, and Tumulty is TIME...
...film--which has not much at all to do with Fargo, North Dakota--is about the difficulty real folks have pulling off crimes that always go smoothly in fiction. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs a lot of cash, so he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife for the ransom money. But these guys aren't smooth criminals; they go nuts trying to put on a galosh or scrape the ice off their windshield. Two incompetent murders later, police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) commences her investigation. And the bad guys get the frozen...
...leaves an opening for Perot to collect some of Pat Buchanan's radically unhappy constituents with their concerns about wage stagnation and job security. But first these voters have to find Perot's Reform Party. For now it is guaranteed a ballot spot in just four states: California, North Dakota, Utah and South Carolina. In another half a dozen states, independent parties already on the ballot, most of them spin-offs from the '92 Perot campaign, are expected to merge with the Reform Party. And Perot lieutenants are pressing petition drives elsewhere. The party is likely to appear...
...DOLE WON A GREAT victory last week, and it wasn't in South Carolina. That win was sweet, but necessary and expected, just like North and South Dakota on Tuesday. His greater triumph was a secret one, in a private struggle to settle his fate as it rests in the hands of his party allies. Hidden somewhere, on their desks or in their dreams, every Republican chieftain has a list. They've had them ever since Dole began losing primaries, or winning with two-thirds of his party voting against him. They rank the men who could come...