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First off, let me assure you that when I began my internship, I wasn't some pie-eyed idealist. I had interned in Congress before, on the House side, and I knew that there was much that was wrong with the way our government operated...
...Clintons went to a late movie; Reed went to look for a printer. Two days later, Clinton released his "National Health Insurance Reform to Cut Costs and Cover Everybody." He claimed he could provide universal coverage without new taxes and without turning the medical industry inside out. It was pie in the sky, but that hardly mattered: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey had a plan and had been telling audiences that Clinton did not. The Arkansas Governor declared his plan to be "uniquely American" and promised to enact it in the first year of his administration. The tactic worked: campaign pollster...
...Cohn. It is astonishing how recently (that is, during Jay Maloney's teenage years) Cohn was singularly powerful. Indeed, he was the first superagent of the modern age, a forerunner of Maloney's boss Mike Ovitz as a finger-in-every-pie packager who represented the writer and the director and the stars of a given production. Deep into the 1980s, Cohn had an impressive plurality of the stars and filmmakers with claims to blue-chip seriousness: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Nichols and so many more...
...after this year's Indy 500. Letterman says he was tickled by the experience. He called the house at 7 p.m. and came by after dinner. "I got there at 8:30, and Mom says to me ((affecting her quiet, church-lady voice)), 'David, would you like some strawberry pie?' I go into the kitchen, and there's a brand-new, fresh-baked strawberry pie. I said, 'When did you make this?' She said, 'I started right after I got off the phone with you.' It was just the cutest. I was so touched. Isn't that motherhood? She gets...
...vigorously for an honest whack at the nation's deficit. The infamous 1990 budget agreement, to which the current plan is so often falsely compared, was dishonest in almost every key respect, primarily because its assumptions were bogus. With Bush's agreement, Congress blithely adopted a set of pie-chart-in- the-sky economic projections almost double the average predicted by private forecasters. When the revenues did not match expectations -- and health-care expenses soared -- the deficit exploded. Clinton, by contrast, has embraced decidedly conservative growth estimates (lower, in fact, than most private economists foresee) and has forthrightly admitted that...