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Writing a best-selling novel isn't the same thing as editing a best-selling newspaper. PETE HAMILL, author of Snow in August, proved that last week when, after eight scant months, he was more or less forced to resign as editor of the New York Daily News by owner Mortimer Zuckerman. Hamill can perhaps put in a brotherly call to Michael Kelly, who was fired from his position as editor of the New Republic after only 10 months. "This is a journal of opinion, and the gap between his opinions and mine was increasingly wide," says the magazine...
...apart from going jogging with CHELSEA--wearing a T shirt given to him by a 16-year-old Israeli boy who's terminally ill--and fitting in a little golfing, Clinton used much of the time for that great solitary pursuit, reading. He delved into Snow in August by Pete Hamill and The Heat Is On by Ross Gelbspan, while Hillary read best seller The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. And after all that, there was still time to admire the "very lovely sculpture" that Toiv announced Hillary got Bill for his birthday. Sometimes a vacation is just a vacation...
...W.N.B.A. in the same way that Teresa Weatherspoon (T-Spoon) feeds Sophia Witherspoon (Serving Spoon) for the New York Liberty. Indeed, these are halcyon days for women's sports. Tennis star Martina Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Women/Sport and Conde Nast's Sports for Women) will soon be competing for readership...
...grateful for a league of their own even if the N.B.A. runs it, sign autographs early, often and late. Indeed, the give-and-take between players and fans is positively refreshing. The other night in Madison Square Garden, the Liberty held a fan-appreciation night that an usher named Pete certainly appreciated. "At one point," recalled Pete, "a girl told Teresa Weatherspoon that she was her hero, and Teresa went up into the stands to give her a hug. Somehow, I don't envision Patrick Ewing doing that...
...bill's major components include a provision which will remodel Medicare and another which will create a $24 billion program of health care for uninsured children. "It is in short a great victory for the American people who are entitled to expect that their adult leaders work together," said Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. With the budget bill out of the way, Congress will now focus on passing the tax cutting package, which offers a $500-per-child tax credit, a reduction in the capital gains tax and roughly $35 billion in benefits for students. The House...