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...proposals this week in an attempt to massage them into passable form. Senate Democratic leaders have set the end of July as the deadline for getting a bill out of his committee and onto the floor. Between now and then, Clinton will have to decide whether to support a pale version of his plan or follow the advice of those aides who believe a partisan floor fight could be won. The decision will be one of the most important and risky of his presidency...
Clinton began his morning jog wearing a radically modest pair of gray knee-length shorts, thus addressing the national fixation on the presidential gams. Clinton has been criticized, and ridiculed, since campaign days for wearing "unpresidential" nylon jogging shorts that some believe revealed too much of his pale, large legs...
Some of the bodies lie motionless on the Ugandan shore. Others float in the breaking waves or bob against tangled beds of water hyacinth. Most are mutilated: limbs slashed, heads missing, a scattering of pale forms indistinguishable from one another except the ways in which they died. The corpses, swept as many as 60 miles by the rain-swollen Kagera River in Rwanda to the edges of Lake Victoria, are the latest evidence of a savage...
...redeemed it. She took away the shame by how she acted. She was young, only 34, and only a few days before she'd been covered in her husband's blood -- but she came home to Washington and walked down those broad avenues dressed in black, her pale face cleansed and washed clean by trauma. She walked head up, back straight and proud, in a flowing black veil. There was the moment in the Capitol Rotunda, when she knelt with her daughter Caroline. It was the last moment of public farewell, and to say it she bent and kissed...
Then came the thin, pale, intensely lyrical paintings of the early '80s, which spin away the congestion altogether, and for a few years recapitulate the graphic intensity of his work in the 1940s, but in terms of an almost Chinese delicacy, in the colors of famille-rose porcelain. Looking at them is like seeing an old man's veins through his skin: the abiding network of the style is set forth, but in its last physical form...