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...Americans, the complex plan would subsidize low-income people and impose insurance-market reforms, for example, making coverage portable from job to job and requiring insurers to accept customers with pre-existing medical conditions. Subsidies, given in the form of vouchers, would be financed by a $1-per-pack increase in the federal cigarette tax and a levy on the highest priced health plans. If the 95% goal isn't met by the year 2002, an independent commission would recommend legislative changes, which Congress would be required to vote on but not accept. There is no other mechanism to ensure...
Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...
...remember: Pack a blacket, some beer and your binoculars, but you can miss the conductor because you'll be more interested in the slob across the way whose scratching his bum or the girl in the bikini who needs some help with her tanning...
...overhead said that he had a gun to his head. People pulled up their lawn chairs to the side of the road to wait for the cortege to pass. They lined the overpasses, waving, shouting, holding up signs -- Go O.J. Go -- as if he were trying to elude a pack of motorized tacklers...
...Disney cartoon drama is laced with intoxicating comedy, with harlequins and hellcats. From Pinocchio on, the villain makes use of a sly sense of humor and a few goofy abettors. Scar, whom Irons plays with wicked precision as the purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna...