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...weekend retreat with his Senate Finance Committee and pronounced tax cuts all but dead. "What all of us have discovered when we go home," he said, "is that the public, over and over, is saying to us, As between the two, we'd rather have deficit reduction." That drew an angry response from Gingrich: "Some of the Senate's comments have backfired. The choice is Reagan or Clinton...
...research published last week offers hope for a more precise test. Led by Dr. Gary Small, a UCLA psychiatrist, the study focused on a small group of middle-aged volunteers, all of whom had relatives with Alzheimer's and who complained of mild memory problems themselves. First the researchers drew blood samples to test for the presence of the Apo-E4 gene. Then they used a PET scanner (positron emission tomography) to record each patient's pattern of brain activity. After a computer sifted through the data, a striking correlation emerged. A group of 12 individuals who had inherited...
...year-old manager, JERRY SOLOMON. Kerrigan's mom broke the news that the Washington-based agent had presented Nancy with a ring (ice, of course) last month. Solomon, who separated from his first wife in 1993, has said in the past that he and the Olympic skating medalist drew closer after she was clubbed on the leg in January 1994. Wedding details are still unclear, but afterward they're probably not going to Disney World...
Comedian BILL MAHER caused a lot of static at the Radio-Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Before a crowd that ranged from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Kato Kaelin, Maher drew boos when he joked about Senator Phil Gramm deporting his Korean-American wife and said D.C. mayor Marion Barry would get drugs off the city's streets "one gram at a time." Tough room...
...group's bassist, Kristen Pfaff, died of an apparent heroin overdose last June. During rehearsals, Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson snap at each other. "Shut up, Eric," Love says at one point. "You're the one with the girlfriend on the cover of Playboy." (Erlandson is dating actress Drew Barrymore, who recently appeared nude in that magazine.) The testy exchange makes one wonder, Can this band pull it together in time to perform...