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...during the 1992 campaign. Now the twist: imagine a Clinton presidency if Hillary had died a few years before the election. He's been in office a while and enjoys high approval ratings. His likely opponent for re-election is the leader of the Senate Republicans--a crabby Kansan named Bob (played by Richard Dreyfuss as if he were a geyser about to gush right-wing bile). On the domestic front, the President has two things to care for: a daughter about Chelsea's age and a man-size libido. He's behaved himself but, in his budding desire...
...that include wealthy individuals and large corporations. In a scarcely veiled bow to those G.O.P. critics, Senate majority leader Bob Dole indicated last week that he was willing to reconsider the hefty tax break. But after presidential rival Phil Gramm and other prominent Republicans blasted Dole's remarks, the Kansan described the $245 billion cut as his unswerving goal...
DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...
Recently defeated Democratic Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas was tapped by President Clinton to become his new Secretary of Agriculture. With the support of incoming Senate majority leader and fellow Kansan Bob Dole, Glickman is expected to win swift confirmation. His prize: heading a department that faces < major cutbacks and reorganization in the months ahead. The previous Secretary, Mike Espy, left under the cloud of an independent counsel's ethics investigation...