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...Jack Sharkey (authors of Jekyll Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
...similarly foolish. Correcting such lapses by demanding that the unvarnished truth be told should not be difficult, but getting the congressional Democrats in line is another matter. And since Clinton has apparently abandoned any hope of G.O.P. support for his plan, even a moderate number of Democratic defections could doom the enterprise...
...recent letter to Clinton, Richard Disbrow, chairman of the American Electric Power Co. argued that a coal tax would "burden the steel, auto, metalworking, chemical, plastics, paint, paper and primary manufacturing industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...
...choosing his top team, Clinton has been guided by three considerations: a quest for ethnic and gender diversity; an emphasis on collegiality; and, in the case of his senior economic assistants, a desire that their selection be perceived calmly by the financial markets, whose skittishness could doom his tenure even before it begins. The last two goals have been met. The first, + diversity, has been harder to achieve, but its importance has been misunderstood. Clinton in no way feels obligated to the women's, ethnic and liberal lobbying groups that seem to have driven him to distraction. To Clinton, diversity...
Even Boris Yeltsin joined the chorus of doom when he told the British Parliament in early November that right-wing opponents were hatching plans to sweep away his government and forcibly return Russia to its unhappy past. Yeltsin's opponents claim it is the President himself who aspires to the dictator's throne with a plan to dissolve Russia's legislative bodies and rule by decree. In a country with a 500-year history of autocracy, such warnings resonate deep within the psyche of a public that is experimenting with democratic government for the first time...