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Reed, a Princeton grad and Rhodes scholar from Idaho, was struggling to remake the ungainly and politically unworkable idea for health-care reform favored by most Democrats. Called "pay or play," the plan would have required employers to extend basic insurance to all their employees or contribute to a public trust that would provide the entitlement instead. Huddling with a brainy Rhode Island business consultant named Ira Magaziner, Reed spent several weeks souping up "pay or play" into a more ambitious- sounding plan that would use savings from cost controls and more efficient management to insure 37 million uninsured Americans...
Washington -- This Tuesday, Clinton must decide whether to end or extend the trade embargo against Vietnam, which is decades old. Last week Hanoi deemed it the right time to share with the U.S. several sacks of documents that may shed new light on the fate of MIA-POWs. Among these are the much sought after "Blue Books" -- internal documents of the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense that detail exactly where Americans were captured and held. Pentagon insiders say it's the largest amount of intelligence Hanoi has ever given...
...main sticking point was habeas corpus, the constitutional provision that allows state prisoners to challenge their convictions in federal courts. Since the restoration of the death penalty in 1976, some defendants have used the habeas rules to extend the appeals process and delay executions for a decade on average. The Supreme Court in recent years has scaled back the ability of convicts to appeal, and liberals in Congress have tried to restore those rights through legislation. Clinton's point man, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, spent much of last winter working on finding a compromise that both sides could...
...DeLuise is absolutely hilarious as Don Giovanni, who is hired to kill Robin Hood. DeLuise does a great imitation of Marlon Brando's imitation of Brando's own Don Corleone. Think about that one for a while. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Dick Van Patten also tries to extend his career by doing a cameo as the Abbot. Haven't these guys heard of retirement and social security...
Ensuring a further price war in the tobacco industry, Philip Morris decided to make permanent the temporary price reductions on Marlboro cigarettes that it put into effect in April and to extend price cuts to its other brands...