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PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face...
...Bird will be much more than the Pacers' coach. Like Pitino and the Celtics and Pat Riley and the Heat, the very identity of the Pacers is now indistinguishable from that of Larry Bird. Which is exactly how the Pacers like it. The self-described "hick from French Lick" is an institution in Indiana, nearly to the degree he has been in Boston. Yet it is perhaps fitting that the Celtics should lose such an integral part of their tradition and identity at just this moment. They are Rick Pitino's Celtics now, the man Bird recruited in his final...
Nevertheless, the association is promulgating a code that prohibits its 1,000 member HMOs from enforcing gag rules and employing such practices as drive-by mastectomies, on pain of being kicked out. In what looks like an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, the association has even announced support for Clinton's panel. Pisano hopefully predicts a "thoughtful" study--leading, presumably, to mild recommendations...
With so many wounds to lick and decisions to make, it might be reasonable to expect everyone to take a month off just to map strategy. But this moment of greatest exhaustion collides with the moment of greatest opportunity. Throughout the campaign, no one wanted to do anything very big or dared do anything very brave. The minute the votes are in, though, the gun goes off on another race. If Clinton and the Congress are going to face any of the hard issues, the reality is they don't have much time...
...election of not only a Democratic President but also a popular Vice President who can barely wait for 2000 is almost too much for Republicans to bear. So they will spend the next few months doing what political animals do by nature when struck, which is lick their wounds and bare their fangs at one another. The Republicans will worry, and they should. Women, the new swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls...