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...something the Democrats never achieved." The Senate package revamps Medicare, Medicaid and various other programs, slowing federal spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when a compromise bill is worked out later this fall...
...flash-back memory and a courageous street-crossing help Skunk Guy learn to stop drooling all over the place, but somehow it doesn't really matter. The inventive costumes (especially a certain breast-squeezing machine and a Torah-reading monkey-device) keep the 14 minute short just barely above water...
...months been in stalled talks with Time Warner, which wants to restructure the terms in order to split the cable from the content companies. U S West claims it has veto power over the merger with Turner, a position that Levin dismissed last week as groundless. In a flash of irritation, the Time Warner chairman declared, "Like the weather in Denver, the negotiations [with U S West] have gotten a little frosty...
...People page before moving to Milestones three years ago. (He also serves up the cheeky Winners & Losers box in Chronicles.) His rambunctious sensibility, says senior editor Bruce Handy, "prevents Milestones from becoming gloomy or sterile. These are rich lives, and he's able to evoke them in a flash." For a sample, just look at Quinn's obit of Orville Redenbacher, America's prince of popcorn, in this week's section...
They notice him, the sectarian haters who suck whiskey and resentment in Belfast's bars, and they accord respect. Victor Kelly is a young swaggerer, a gifted thug with the flash and cold nerve to force a terrified man of the opposing tribe to his knees, then cut his throat with a filleting knife. Kelly's bunch are Protestants, and the enemy tribe Catholics, though it matters not a Mass or a damn because pure enmity on both sides, cherished and nurtured from childhood, now and forevermore, is the city's religion...