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...overwhelming belief that E-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose," writes Jon Carroll, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, compares electronic bulletin boards with the "scribblers' compacts" of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in which members passed letters from hand to hand, adding a little more at each turn. David Sewell, an associate editor at the University of Arizona, likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s, "when people were reinventing journalism...
...House Ways and Means Committee resuscitated President Clinton's health reforms, barely approving a plan to insure every American by 1998 and requiring employers to foot most of the bill. But just before the 20-18 vote, their counterparts in Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate Finance Committee dumped the president's employer mandate, voting instead to tax the richest health benefit plans and set a goal of getting at least 95 percent of Americans covered by 2002. Three conflicting Congressional health care bills will now go through another shredding before a compromise squeaks onto the House and Senate floors...
...watched Game 6 with 15 Knicks fans ready to celebrate if the New Yorkers managed to prevail. When Cambridge native Patrick Ewing missed those two open-court lay-ups and drew and offensive interference, I clapped. Loudly. When Kenny Smith nailed that clutch three-pointer with about two minutes left, I did a moonwalk. And when Hakeem Olajuwon got a piece of John Starks' final shot of the game, sealing the Rocket victory, I danced and cheered and nearly had my face punched...
...national health care. This week, under the surprisingly steady hand of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Senate Finance Committee will haggle over the shape of its health care package; that package will, in all likelihood, bear a striking resemblance to whatever program President Clinton signs or vetoes...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a sneak preview of his own health care plan, which reads a lot like President Clinton's. Expect a nail-biter tomorrow when the Senate Finance Committee votes on Moynihan's strategy. He'll push voluntary measures to have employers pay for medical insurance, but effectively make them pay ONLY after 5 years if too few Americans are covered. Key Republicans on the committee predict they'll successfully defeat the thing Wednesday, prompting TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson to speculate that Moynihan (with White House coaxing) has set up the GOP members to be the spoilers...