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Such forebodings could reshape the national debate over Medicare just as the House G.O.P. plan comes before the Ways and Means Committee for a critical vote this week. While approval there seems certain, the low-level alarm building outside Washington could force Republicans to rethink the plan and decide to pare back Medicare outlays by far less than $270 billion. Rising qualms among voters could also lead the Senate, whose Finance Committee passed a companion Medicare measure in September, to scale back provisions of the bill when it reaches the Senate floor...
...awaits the verdict, Los Angeles has been gloomily revisiting some of its worst memories, the ones formed during the riots that followed the first Rodney King trial. The L.A.P.D., which was accused of responding too slowly to the first disturbances that followed the King verdict,will be on low-level alert on O.J.'s verdict day. After Cochran's summation, police chief Willie Williams declared he would hold the entire defense team responsible for heightening tensions in his city: "When this trial is over, they're going to go back to their homes. [But] we're going to have...
Ekeus announced that the documents, which are being inventoried at a U.N. center in Baghdad, contained "radically new valuable data." Iraq had previously insisted that its biological weapons program was only a low-level research effort and that all agents manufactured had been destroyed before the war started. Now it admits that there were five secret facilities producing a large stockpile of anthrax and botulinum toxin as well as three other types of poisons. Iraq claims the agents were destroyed after...
...hell out of Detroit." He accomplished those goals rapidly. Largely self- educated, the teenage Vesco, who managed to complete only half a correspondence course toward a high school diploma, grew a mustache to look older and try to qualify for jobs in local auto factories. He quickly moved from low-level design work to engineering to sales in various firms, garnering experience in one post to parlay into another. By the time he was 21, his job had transferred him out of Detroit and into New York City and the land of hungry investors...
...point. Convicted last year of selling 50 grams of crack, he is now doing 15 years in the federal prison at Leavenworth; had he sold cocaine instead, his sentence would be closer to two years. The commission's bottom line: "Issues of 'fairness' or 'just punishment' result when relatively low-level crack retailers receive higher sentences than the wholesale-level cocaine dealer from whom the crack seller originally purchased the powder to make the crack...