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...shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman to order cuts totaling some $11.7 billion, half from defense and half from civilian spending that has not been specifically exempted. These reductions, known in federalese as sequestrations, will take effect March 1. Says Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici: "It's going to come as a shock to a lot of people who voted for this that there will be sequestering in March...
Nadal, who became the first teen to win a men's Grand Slam event since Pete Sampras took the U.S. Open in 1990, stays low-key when not crushing a ball. "A dream came true for me in Paris, but I will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving...
...East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into a tailspin," says former CIA Director James Woolsey, now a vice president at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative fuels and advanced automobile technology. But it's another arm of this movement, the Set America Free alliance (which also counts Woolsey among its members), that has identified a Holy Grail...
Judging from the tone of what passed for debate last week, deference on both sides has already disappeared. For that matter, so has civility. Some Senators will vote to end the judicial filibuster partly in a desperate effort to change the tone. "You know what?" said New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. "I don't think it could get any worse...
...PETE HODGSON, New Zealand Climate Change Minister, setting the world's first carbon tax which, from 2007, will add 6% to household energy prices