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...more than half of that $2.7 trillion pie for tax cuts, along with what he promises will be healthy dollops for debt reduction and new programs, but he doesn't have all the details yet either. He submits his budget plan to Congress on Feb. 28, after addressing a joint session with a state-of-the-surplus address the day before...
...clear-eyed logic, Suman maintains that it is the parents who are least willing to confront that reality. "The children from Olofstorp don't have a bad attitude toward us; it's mostly the parents," she says. "They say that if the Swedish children don't form a joint class here, they will move them to another school." At the same time, she recognizes that the "Swedish" people are an integral part of Hjällboskolan. "You can't have a school with only immigrants," she explains, "because then the immigrants will be talking their own languages with each other...
...With two kids under six, her job means more Mr. Mom duties for the vein-popping Cajun who helped elect Bill Clinton in 1992. It also means a serious drop in family income. Carville and Matalin's mix of celebrity, romance and adversarial politics has been a lucrative formula--joint speeches, talk-show gigs--since their public courtship during the '92 campaign...
...boardrooms and government offices. Last May the U.S. reversed course when President Clinton, over fierce resistance from the Republican Congress, issued an Executive Order promising that the U.S. would not challenge laws in African countries that seek to improve access to AIDS drugs. For five years, UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS) jawboned the companies to set lower prices for developing countries. Finally, just before the international AIDS conference held last July in Durban, South Africa, five major pharmaceuticals joined an "Accelerated Access" program to negotiate 60% to 80% reductions in AIDS-drug prices for poor nations...
MARRIED. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, 54, up and down and up again fashion doyen, and BARRY DILLER, 59, chairman of USA Networks and archetypal media mogul; after 26 years as an item and social joint venture; in an unglamorous City Hall ceremony that took place on his birthday; in New York City. "That was my present to him," the bride remarked. "Myself...