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...their plan not because anyone thinks they are the most vital improvement but because they are the least expensive. And the President's current efforts to bolster his trade-negotiating authority may have come too late to save the legislation. Even the balanced-budget deal was more an item off the President's 1995 and 1996 checklists than a postelection new idea. Yet since midsummer, White House aides have been saying not to expect a new agenda from Clinton until his next State of the Union address in January. "We're still not sure what a post-balanced-budget world...
...tend to focus on the singular, while women tend to gather numerous things around them. For example, when women shop, they will often search for absolutely nothing in particular which "they will know as soon as they find it." Men, on the other hand, will focus on buying one item ("Me want shirt. Me get shirt. Go home, watch...
...from Congress. Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...
...line-item veto question that Clinton will find the most agonizing. The President ran into a barrage of criticism when he wielded the pork-slashing power on the military construction bill, and aides are urging him to keep cuts low this time. To that end, chief of staff Erskine Bowles has prepared a relatively minuscule list of items on which to use the veto. One item curiously absent from the short list: the AEGIS cruiser set to be built in Trent Lott's home town in Mississippi. Clinton has made his objection to such blatant pieces of pork clear...
Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...