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...Administration, meanwhile, appears charmed by Lowey's "advice." Fearing a dustup that could scuttle health reform, Clinton is trying to sidestep the controversy by promising to cover "medically necessary pregnancy-related services." If the President thinks he can dance around the pro-lifers with that language, he should think again. "Medically necessary" is a term of bureaucratic art. It dates from the days before Hyde's amendment and was routinely interpreted as permitting abortion on demand. Hyde is ready for war: "No way am I going to let the crucial definitions be determined by the little one," he says scornfully...
...fabled Letterman irony, one can be excused a skeptical pause. Is he serious? Or is this another Letterman put-on, one of those statements meant to convey its precise opposite -- the way "those fine, fine people at General Electric" on his old show usually meant Dave had had another dustup with his bonehead corporate bosses. Letterman's new headquarters -- located a few stories above New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater, where he is about to unveil his new late-night talk show on CBS -- are clean, all right, but not without intrusion. The smell of roasting chicken wafts...
...write "I saw this" on the test sheets. Not everyone wanted to attempt this particular hurdle, and her pals turned to Masako, a good choice since she already had superior penmanship. "I saw this," she wrote confidently on their papers, until someone in the class squealed. In the dustup that followed, Owada spoke out, saying each student should choose whether to reveal her scores. Recalls a classmate: "At a time when everyone took the teacher's word as absolute, she already sensed some right and wrong...
...came to office with a deserved reputation as a consensus builder. "He tried that right off with the Joint Chiefs over the issue of gays in the military, and got swatted down by Colin Powell and Sam Nunn," says an Administration official. Competing lessons were drawn from that early dustup. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said, "Obviously, a lot more consultation with key players like Nunn" would have helped. Clinton's rhetoric agreed, but his actions since often haven't. "A quote in an article back then still bothers him," says a Clinton aide. "The one where a Senator said that...
...even some of his supporters have trouble swallowing Clinton's contention that his eventual decision to submit to the draft was a moral act, when he wrote at the time that he wanted -- even at the age of 23 -- to maintain his future "political viability." The latest dustup about what kind of letter he received in England can only reinforce an impression that he is saying whatever he judges to be expedient...