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...President proposed a $28 billion plan to subsidize long-term care for those with debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. The plan calls for a tax credit of up to $3,000 for families with a member requiring long-term care. Clinton tried to pass a similar, more modest proposal through Congress last year, but it was quashed in last-minute budget horse-trading...
...told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy options before him in a commuter terminal at Boston's Logan International Airport--everything from sweeping, state-run health care to the most modest increments. Gore checked off five options. Then it suddenly occurred to him what he wanted to do: cover children and their families. "Children are the most important thing here," he said. "That's what people want...
...different, so are the quizzes. Today's shows are almost certainly not fixed. Not only would it be impossible to keep such fraud secret in this age, when every rumor finds a ready voice, but it is not necessary. The questions are too easy, answerable by a person of modest intelligence and learning. The early quizzes asked for information almost no one could provide--e.g., the complete menu of a royal dinner in Enlightenment France. Today's shows are built on the most degraded of advertising techniques: use this deodorant, and you too can have great sex; you too could...
McCain has admitted he must win South Carolina to stay in the race through March. Polls show him gaining a modest 6 points, but Bush is still ahead by 33. McCain is counting on veterans and independents. They make up one-third of all voters and can cast ballots for any party in this open primary. The G.O.P. chairman has ordered the printing of enough ballots to serve twice the votes cast in 1996. But Bush has built the first of his so-called firewalls here...
Richardson rose above his modest beginnings as a member of the Harvard Lampoon to become a public servant on a grand scale. A decorated World War II veteran, Richardson eventually held four cabinet posts, more than any other person in history. He was the primary architect of the Law of the Sea, a major international maritime treaty. Richardson later entered the realm of diplomacy as Ambassador to Great Britain...