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Hours before President Clinton was to address the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- a group he helped found, once led and used as a springboard to the White House -- the group's current chairman, lame-duck Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, hammered Clinton for apparently drifting leftward. "While Bill Clinton has the mind of a new Democrat, he retains the heart of an old Democrat," McCurdy told compatriots. "The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and liberal agenda at the same time, to the great confusion of the American people." (McCurdy, who got drubbed in a Senate...
...Arkansas law has been struck down by every lower tribunal, and the Supreme Court is likely to do the same. Says Professor Tracey Maclin of Boston University Law School: "The court realizes this is a pressing issue. If they duck this case, another one will come up soon. This is a good vehicle for stopping the whole movement in its tracks." Nevertheless, laws limiting the terms of state officials, which have generally been upheld by lower courts and are not at issue in next week's Supreme Court case, have changed the nature of political activity from the school board...
...When the Senate Republican leader wanted to make Administration officials jump, he merely had to fire off a few faxes. Sent while the President was vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom notes, lists of demands to be met in return for Dole's support when a lame-duck Congress votes this week on the world-trade pact known as GATT. On the receiving end were White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Within 24 hours, all three were seated across from Dole, sipping orange juice and coffee...
...treaty. The efforts of Dole and some Republican strategists to link approval of GATT to a cut in the capital-gains tax -- a perennial on the G.O.P.'s wish list -- came to naught. Legislation putting GATT into effect will be voted on this week at a special lame-duck session of Congress...
...right; the Internet is not the real world. The Cornell suicide-watch should have spent a bit more time around those two famous Ithaca gorges, instead of monitoring thousands of lame-duck messages on the network...