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That's the hard lesson the President was confronted with last week. After almost a year of wrangling, when all is said and done about health care, less will be done than said. Even the prospects for a modest plan based on the proposals of the 20 or so Senators who call themselves the Mainstream Coalition are decidedly iffy, so much so that Clinton is signaling he may settle for an even more modest outcome -- a piecemeal collection of insurance changes. And if major changes don't get through this Congress, don't expect reform to find a warmer welcome...
...municipalities struggling with the problem. Telluride's San Miguel County requires developers to set aside 15% of their sites for affordable housing. In Aspen, where resistance to more new "monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
...Boyz -- Wanya Morris, Nate Morris (no relation), Shawn Stockman and Michael McCary -- didn't live in a fantasy world growing up. All are in their early 20s, and all were raised by single mothers of modest means. That helps explain why their music is so empathetic toward the opposite sex. "Women go through a great deal in the day," says Stockman, "and we feel the man should be the one to say, 'Hey, relax, now I'm going to do the things you want to be done...
...build a sharply scaled-back outlet near the downtown area of St. Johnsbury (pop. 8,000) as the price of admission to Vermont. Not that it will be a mere boutique. At 75,000 sq. ft., the store will dominate the town's landscape, yet it will still be modest by comparison with the discount palaces of 120,000 sq. ft. that Wal- Mart has built in other states. The concession could accelerate Wal-Mart's expansion in New England at a time when the company is beginning to run out of other U.S. locations and is moving abroad -- from...
...Marxist -- approach that has been popular in Europe over the past two decades. Reacting especially to Patrice Chereau's influential 1976 production, set in the Industrial Revolution, the team rejected polemics in favor of a more classical approach. But they failed to come up with an alternative vision. The modest strength of this Ring is that it leaves the audience with scope to listen and think; the weakness is that the stage is empty of ideas or inspiration...