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...McCain-Feingold bill to end the soft-money loophole which currently enables large and corrupting donations to funnel into national parties. Clinton also announced that he will ask the Federal Communications Commission to provide free or reduced-cost television time for candidates who voluntarily observe spending limits. These relatively modest proposals are the least that Congress can do to fix our broken campaign finance system...
...card bills in anticipation of the divorce. The settlement downsized the family's life-style; Bernard Lewinsky, who paid $6,000 a month in spousal and child support after the settlement, now lives in a one-story stucco house. It is worth $700,000, but it lies in a modest section of Brentwood, a few blocks from Nicole Brown Simpson's house...
...Christmas, the White House has sprung a new policy proposal. Some are big, like giving 62- to 64-year-olds a chance to buy into Medicare, and spending nearly $22 billion more on child care. Others, like expanding college work-study grants and training more computer programmers, are relatively modest. Clinton is also talking more seriously about confronting Social Security's solvency crisis. What all these plans have in common is that they seek to give ballast to a nation sailing through choppy waters...
...modest religious revival is under way in Castro's Cuba. Catholic Church attendance, baptisms, confirmations, religious weddings and funerals are all on the rise. In this traditionally Catholic nation, almost equal numbers attend Catholic Mass or evangelical services, and the religion with the most adherents of all--perhaps half the population--is the Afro-Cuban rite of Santeria. Its babalaos (spiritual guides) far exceed the Catholic priests in influence, but its home-based, loose network of competing sects poses no political threat. Economic hardship is a powerful motivator: many of those new congregants of all faiths are searching for material...
...Living up to the promise will be much easier than getting Windows 98 to ship on time. The infrastructure will cost much less than was previously thought, plus the plan to produce modems that connect at a screamingly high 1.5 million bits per second is actually modest by DSL standards. The makers of the technology believe it can squeeze as much as 8 million bits out of a copper phone wire ? perhaps more. "It's the great bandwith horizon," says Ramo. "You never get any closer to the edge...