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...thought about leaving," says Donna Taylor, a lesbian who lives in Talent, Oregon. And she has had good reason to want to. More than 20 years ago, before she came out, she was raped by an acquaintance "who knew enough about me to know I was a lesbian. The man said he was going to teach me how to act like a woman if it killed me." Taylor is still subjected to rude remarks on street corners. Tomatoes have been mashed inside her mailbox. Her partner's daughter has been harassed. But Taylor will not change her life -- nor will...
...coalition of national right-to-life groups to challenge her nomination. "We are deadly opposed to her confirmation," says James A. Smith, a lobbyist for the Christian Life Commission. But the White House contends it is ready to fight for this nominee. Says Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala: "She is colorful and plainspoken, and Americans like people who are straightforward." One Republican Senator, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, has come out against her, but no one expects it to stop there...
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton dallied for months before selecting an AIDS czar, Kristine Gebbie, last Friday. The previous day, members of the National Commission on AIDS visited HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and criticized the Administration bitterly. According to those present, chairman David Rogers said, "I'm incredulous that you could have screwed up so much." Seemingly disconcerted, Shalala periodically left the room. Re-entering for the last time, she said, "Done." An AIDS czar had been chosen...
...early meetings, most of Bill Clinton's Cabinet members addressed one another as Chris or Les or Donna. But Lloyd Bentsen they called "Mr. Secretary." It was an appropriate gesture of respect for the Treasury chief's age -- at 72, he is old enough to be the grandfather of some of Clinton's younger aides -- and experience. Bentsen began attending insiders' meetings more than 40 years ago; as a young Congressman, he sat in on some "board of education" gatherings at which "Mr. Sam" Rayburn and House colleagues shaped legislative strategy over belts of bourbon...
Demonstrating their team spirit, two of the most liberal Cabinet members made very centrist gestures last week. Health Secretary Donna Shalala announced that she would be embarking on reforms to fulfill candidate Clinton's promise to "end welfare as we know it," a subject on which she had been silent until now. Labor Secretary Robert Reich said Clinton's plan to raise the minimum wage, now $4.25 an hour, will be postponed to give small- business leaders a chance to let their fears be taken into account. Health- care reform was postponed last week as well, to calm those...