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...moment worth marking--a clear signal that when it comes to protecting the poor, the party of the New Deal and the Great Society can't and won't do much anymore except trim the rough edges from G.O.P. plans. Though the Republican welfare bill was far harsher than the reform Bill Clinton proposed last year, which envisioned billions of dollars in new spending for job training and child care, the President pronounced the Senate plan acceptable. All but 11 of the 46 Senate Democrats voted...
...moderate Republicans succeeded in increasing child-care funding and stripping provisions that would have denied cash benefits to unwed teenage mothers. Conservative Republicans won a provision that financially rewards states that reduce out-of-wedlock births. The final bill will have to be reconciled with a similar but harsher House measure...
...vilified in the Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...
...Washington the pundits will long ponder what exactly did Packwood in. His transgressions have not yet proved to be criminal and hardly seem worthy of harsher condemnation than those of others who have stumbled into sex or corruption charges and yet held their seat. Does Packwood's fall reflect a new moral climate in the Capitol, one that mirrors the family values championed by the religious right? Or was Packwood, who turned 63 this week, the fall guy for a bunch of Senators who stood accused of not "getting it" in the wake of the 1991 Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas...
...will be sacrificed early on because they have not yet proved profitable anywhere in the region. And even in the best of circumstances, U.S. solutions may not work. Says Yuri Du nishenko, the vice chairman of Kha barovsk's Wildlife Research Institute: "We have different soils and a much harsher climate than the U.S. What works in the U.S. may not work here...