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...been lugging around a textbook on depression, which is oddly out of place in the hands of such a cheerful woman, the one person who seems to be able to unstuff the shirt of Vice President Al Gore. He gets so relaxed around her that at one of the marathon health-care task force meetings recently, he rubbed her aching neck. The neck notwithstanding, the Vice President says Tipper is "having a blast" in her job as mental-health adviser to the President's health-care task force, a slight exaggeration of the pleasure of spending late nights poring over...
...next few months will offer little respite. In the midst of the final marathon sessions to complete the task force's recommendations, the once rosy picture for pushing health-care reform through the Congress has turned bleak. House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski went so far as to ridicule her nascent plan as the "domestic equivalent of Star Wars." (She still had him over for dinner that night.) A growing cabal of Administration officials has urged the Clintons to delay their health-care plan, arguing that the President can't risk overloading the system by sending both his economic...
...over two weeks watching her father -- the gruff, authoritarian and inspiring Hugh Rodham -- slowly slip away. She comes from a family so bizarrely intact that the whole group went on the Clintons' honeymoon to Acapulco. The extended family had dinner together most weekends and played marathon games of Trivial Pursuit and Hungarian rummy, a card game so byzantine in its bylaws that only close friends or relatives can participate...
RUTH MOSHER WILL ALWAYS WONDER WHAT LED HER DAUGHTER SHERRI Jewell to David Koresh. The pictures scattered around the house are of Sherri: winning a medal in a marathon; accepting her high school diploma; hugging her mother, whom she considered her best friend. "I thought her childhood was pretty happy," says Mosher, "but maybe it wasn't." Sherri, born 43 years ago in Honolulu, the only child of a salesman and a schoolteacher, was uprooted when her parents separated and her mother moved with her to California. But "I gave her everything -- all the ballet, music, gymnastics, swimming classes...
...Boston Marathon takes place today and every year, members of the Harvard community train so that they may take part, and all say they're just...