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...held two meetings with Democratic leader Tom Daschle, who, in turn, refrained from attacking Lott as a Gingrich clone. But some colleagues warn that in a campaign season, Lott's pugnacious side would rather play up partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call a "poison pill." With cooperation like that, the cease-fire won't last long...
...vote count starts, early reports predict only a modest turnout of Israel's Arab citizens; Shaath becomes nervous. "We need an 80% Israeli-Arab participation rate," he says heatedly ("we" refers to the Peres effort, and Shaath uses the word throughout the evening). To reach that goal the Palestinian Authority had urged Arab clerics and other trusted pro-Peres Palestinians to go door to door to push Arab Israelis to the polls. After a last-minute surge, 79% of them did vote, and more than 94% supported Peres. "Remember," Shaath says, smiling, "we don't interfere. But after this...
...defense of the cost increases, two arguments are usually made. First, as costs have gone up, so has the availability of financial aid--hence students of modest means are not being shut out. Second, public higher education is still a great bargain, offered to students at substantially less than cost and, if viewed as an investment, likely to produce a high return in the form of future earnings...
...Sheila's a modest person," says local talk show host Glenn S. Koocher '71. "She's more closely aligned with neighborhood constituencies, and she's someone who feels very comfortable with herself...
Brokaw grew up in a modest two-story home in Yankton, Souh Dakota, a farming community of 13,000 along the Missouri River...