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Training camp may be breeding more questions than answers for the Big Green of Dartmouth. Junior Jon Aljancic, senior Ren Riley and senior Jerry Singleton are at war for the quarterback spot. Pete Oberle, who sat out four games of 1994 with knee injury, may or may not be able to go this season...
...mothers who have more children. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who added the family cap to his sweeping welfare reform bill last Friday, lobbied hard for the measure, saying "If we don't deal with out-of-wedlock births, then we're really not dealing with welfare reform." Republican Pete Domenici, who led the opposition, said that the payments in question were too small to discourage poor women from having more out-of-wedlock children. He added that the limitation might actually encourage poor women to have abortions...
...Pete Wilson's decision to drop out of the Iowa caucus has rival GOP campaigns dismissing his candidacy, but it may be too early to count him out. West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante notes that, given the $14 million it takes to run in the early round of caucuses and primaries starting with Iowa and New Hampshire, every candidate except Bob Dole will be forced to skip at least one. "You can put a price tag on Wilson's decision: $1.1 million. That's what it would cost to launch an effective grassroots campaign in Iowa, and Wilson...
...first major swipe at Bob Dole, Pete Wilson today declared the GOP frontrunner soft on welfare reform. "The compromises being cut in the Senate raise serious doubts as to whether the Senate Republican leader really understands the mandate the voters gave us last November to make dramatic change," Wilson told the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante says it's the opening gambit in the California governor's plan to "portray himself as taking action as governor on these very issues that Dole is just talking about and compromising on in the Senate. Wilson wants...
...mention one of the best--and most idiosyncratic. Columnist Pete Hamill, in a glowing introduction to the first volume of excerpts from this work in progress, called A Diary of the Century (Kodansha; 578 pages; $25), proposes, "There are human beings not yet born who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis." Far more than a personal memoir, the diaries record practically everything Ellis said, did, thought, felt, read or saw, accompanied by copies of newspaper stories he wrote as well as letters he sent and received. This glorious mishmash constitutes an informal...