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Ellis said the likelihood of this "working opposition" is what led to Clinton's appointment of Leon Panetta--whom Ellis said is liked and respected on Capitol Hill--as Chief of Staff...
...national health care. This week, under the surprisingly steady hand of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Senate Finance Committee will haggle over the shape of its health care package; that package will, in all likelihood, bear a striking resemblance to whatever program President Clinton signs or vetoes...
Many heterosexuals resent any perceived invitation to "condone" or "endorse" gay behavior. They would rather not know -- or, in the words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality...
...University Campaign--a five-year effort aimed at raising nearly $2.1 billion--will almost certainly succeed, and even surpass expectations for its success. Even before it was announced, the campaign had accumulated a nucleus fund of just over $652n million, more than a quarter of its target. In all likelihood, a healthy infusion of cash will keep the $6 billion coffers of the world's wealthiest university brimming. And that is good...
...likelihood the Warren Commission was right: there was no conspiracy behind the murder of John F. Kennedy. But almost from the moment of the ) murder, works such as Barbara Garson's Shakespearean satire MacBird!, Richard Condon's gothic novel Winter Kills and Oliver Stone's film JFK have suggested the story makes a better myth if Lee Harvey Oswald were a cat's-paw instead of a gnat who changed history. The major boon to conspiracy theorists is that the facts do not fit neatly into the Warren Commission scenario. Unfortunately, they fit even less neatly into any alternative, which...