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From the sound of the squawking of the Cabinet secretaries, one would have thought that something serious was under discussion. But when Janet Reno, Donna Shalala and company testified before a Senate committee this week about a lurking threat to every program they administer, it was just more of the exaggerated conceit that never seems far from a debate on the balanced budget amendment...
...foster-care system in the long run. One skeptic is Dr. Sidney Jones, the hospital's chief of obstetrics and gynecology. "The idea of a three-month outpatient program is a joke," he says. "I want money for a house where these women can live for a year." Donna Carson, founder of the Atlanta program, agrees: "A lot of mothers will abandon their babies after they get home because their life isn't working. They need long-term support...
...control advocates are trying to head off first-time buyers by warning them of the new risks they will be running. "We must teach our citizens that guns are dangerous consumer products," said Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in a speech last Thursday before the American Trauma Society. She points to studies that have found that having a gun in the home makes it five times as likely that someone in the household will commit suicide, and three times as likely that someone will be murdered. Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini recalls a young mother...
Playwright Kessler's quirkiness, however, can also be overwhelming, and not all of the actors are as successful in carrying off their roles. Peter (Mark Baskin) is a tad too stereotypical as a formerly-imprisoned teleevangelist, but Baskin tries to make the most of his purposely cheesy lines, greeting Donna with "God bless your four chambered heart" and "God bless your ventricles." As the gullible, God-loving Donna, Katie Guillory doesn't seem to know where to focus her gaze on stage, which makes her performance a bit too spacy and distracted. Kessler occasionally overstretches reality--the idea of Donna...
...Administration's efforts to - increase funding for AIDS research and to raise awareness of the disease. He responded to a heckler at a hospital by saying, "I'd rather have that man in here screaming at me than have him give up altogether." Earlier, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced a plan to accelerate research, and Attorney General Janet Reno promised to fight for prosecution of doctors and nurses who refuse to treat AIDS sufferers...