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QUOTE OF NOTE: "The people of my district have good judgement and keen common sense, and they see my voting for the past five years. If I disagree with the President, I vote accordingly...
Mubarak: Strained. For one main reason: we are reflecting public opinion. The people are furious. Some elements in this country say, "Cut diplomatic relations." I am very keen for the process to move forward, not to freeze diplomatic relations...
...President Clinton has been very keen to increase Pell Grants and provide assistance for work study," Hicks said. "After the year we've had, we're very happy...
Clinton's missteps don't much bother her--she doesn't care about Whitewater or his affairs, doesn't know who Dick Morris is--but the President's manner does. "I hate that Clinton said he didn't inhale." She likes Hillary Clinton and isn't keen on Newt Gingrich. "His name alone irritates me. I know that a newt is a lizard. We had them growing up. If you touch their tails, they break off as a defense mechanism, but then they grow back." Not that she's thrilled by her Congressman, Richard Gephardt, who would replace Gingrich...
...prevail upon his old friend Lucas--the two made the Indiana Jones movies together--to give a big bang to Spielberg's new company, DreamWorks. Sources close to Lucas doubt he'll slip his babies into the untested DreamWorks distribution pipeline. A Fox executive adds that Lucas has a keen sense of competition with Spielberg and is eager for the original Star Wars to pass Jurassic Park at the box office. (The score in the U.S. is Star Wars, $322 million; Jurassic Park, $357 million.) In fact, it was the special-effects breakthroughs Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic created for Jurassic...