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Five years later, they are still trying. VA bureaucrats insist that Winsick does not qualify for such funding and should rely on his Medicare medical coverage. But Winsick, thinking he was covered by the VA, never signed up for Medicare. He is eligible to sign up in January 1996, but his coverage will not begin until next July. By then he could be dead. "I fought in the war, and I was a prisoner," says Winsick. "I expected humane treatment afterward. I'm getting shafted...
What's a handler to do with a President who is addicted to bouts of over-the-phone self-analysis with not always friendly reporters? Sigh--and then insist the reporters have taken key phrases out of context. Such was the White House response after columnist Ben Wattenberg published excerpts of a telephone call he recently received from President Clinton. According to Wattenberg, the voluble Clinton offered a self-critique of his first two years: the President had "lost the language" appropriate to a moderate New Democrat; he had become too interested in the "legislative scorecard"; he had erred...
...aspect of the show in which people insist on finding metaphor is the blue color of the men themselves. The group gets asked 'the blue question' so frequently, according to Goldman, that "I went a few months saying 'You can ask anything, any question except 'why blue." The question is not only repetitive, but its also unanswerable, because, according to Stanton, "It didn't have a thinking process behind it." Adds Wink, "It's like saying 'why these chords' to a musician...
...much of the world still honors this middle-aged venture is evident, then. But among some Western nations that designed it, at least, the U.N. today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium...
Republicans insist, however, that the economy needs a balanced budget in seven years, even if it causes pain. "The major, major difference between the President's budget and ours," Domenici said, "is the almost total lack of restraint on entitlements in the President's [program]." Concurred David Wyss, the chief financial economist at DRI/McGraw Hill: "If you do not get those cutbacks in entitlement programs, you're not going to get the budget balanced or keep it balanced...