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...sign of Clinton's seriousness is that the NAFTA campaign has taken on % the frenzied quality of the previous do-or-die efforts on behalf of the budget and health care. Every Tuesday or Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room, Clinton meets for at least an hour with 10 to 20 undecided House members from both parties. The goal is to meet all waverers by the end of October. Once a week, Bentsen, Vice President Al Gore, Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and economics counselor Bob Rubin invite to Washington 100 business and opinion leaders -- mostly handpicked by undecided House members...
...Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood respiratory illnesses, such as bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma...
Look--down there, river-ward. See them? The vendors, the die-hard crew fans, the novice crew fans, the cops, the babies, the dogs on leashes, the high school kids, the varsity-jacketed crew folk. But someone's missing: us. The Harvard kids. That's because we're in hiding...
...Basehart), player of the world's smallest violin. The Fool has a gentle poetic nature, and falls for Gelsomina immediately. She is so shocked that someone is being kind to her that she walks into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens to Gelsomina afterwards is a tragic love story. It is also a spiritual and humanist allegory about loneliness, faith and kindness...
...life out of an old hackneyed one? The success of "Wayne's World," "The Addams Family" and "The Fugitive" jolted Hollywood executives to the sudden realization that a whole unexplored world of worn-out premises was there for the taking, in the vaults where old TV shows go to die...