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...care. But the G.O.P. quickly zeroed in on mentions of Social Security COLA adjustments, benefit reductions and payroll deduction hikes. Representative Newt Gingrich (Rep., Georgia) attacked, saying the memo reinforces the feelings of the American people that the Clinton Administration "is an enormous threat to their values, to their pocketbook, to their future." Today the White House was forced to come out swinging with Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, charging that Social Security and Medicare cuts "are the proposals of our opponents, not this Administration."Still, the damage is done, says TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy. "The memo undercuts...
...accuse me of advocating allout cultural revolution, I must qualify. I do not equate non-conformity with Volkswagen vans, Maoism or World Music. Joining the priesthood or the Peace Corps, a farm or the Foreign Service are all valid rejections of the increased homogeneity of the Harvard community. The pocketbook might suffer, the parents might moan. Individualism does come at a price...
Ames might never have given serious thought to anything but his own pocketbook or his own neuroses...
...When the history of the Clinton presidency iswritten, the little-known events of November 5will come to occupy a place of significance,"Journal columnist Gerald F. Seie predicts. "Thatwas the night when Bill Clinton resolved to begintalking to the country's soul, not just to itsmind and its pocketbook...
When the shooting began, Esther Confino says, "I got down as low as I could and covered my head with my handbag and just prayed." Perhaps a prayer can stop a Black Talon. But a pocketbook probably will not. The bullet is designed to unsheathe its claws once inside the victim's body and tear it to pieces. That's what Colin Ferguson was firing, to the right, then the left, as he walked backward through the third car of the 5:33 train to Hicksville, New York, last Tuesday night. And the passengers who crushed toward the exits...