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...political strategists about the presidential race, and you'll hear that Al Gore has an edge over George W. Bush on the big domestic issues. A majority of voters agree with Gore that tax cuts should be modest and the budget surplus should go to save Social Security and Medicare, that health coverage should be expanded and women should retain their right to abortion. But on at least one traditional piece of Democratic turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called...
...Having attracted a modest intercollegiate fan base, the band has amplified and started to play some local clubs. North House enthusiasts heard the musicians' original tunes at T.T. the Bear's in Central Square and at the Loeb Ex last month. At a climactic moment, they stumbled upon a legitimate chance to play at L.A.'s famous Viper Room, owned by Johnny Depp--where River Phoenix met his untimely death...
...their health-care plan late last summer, the Vice President had said no to aides who wanted to make it more ambitious. Gore insisted on an incremental approach that would strike people as realistic and prove he had learned the lessons of 1994. He ended up with a modest proposal that focused on insuring children. But his advisers were troubled. Bradley had been talking about health care all summer; he was clearly going to promise coverage for all or nearly all Americans. Health care remained a huge problem for millions, and Gore's strategists were worried that the race might...
...flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that make her very modest film more affecting than you might expect...
...might not think that a multibillion-dollar deal between two European banks would affect your own (considerably more modest) financial situation. But it just might. Thursday, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank announced plans to join in a "merger of equals" to form Deutsche Bank AG. The new company's total assets will be valued at a jaw-dropping $1.3 trillion, making it one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Not surprisingly, those profits won't be scraped together from the holdings of the average Helmut's personal bank account; the merger announcement included a plan...