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Such questions are beyond the scope of this inquiry. (There's a sentence you haven't heard in Washington lately.) But another question is admissible: Why do Washington opinion leaders seem to have more trouble than average Americans imagining themselves in Clinton's shoes? Oddly, the problem may be that they consider Clinton a peer. Clinton and the politicos and the pundits all inhabit the same basic social arena. And social proximity makes detachment difficult. It breeds rivalry and enmity, hence harshness of judgment. True, it can also breed friendship and alliance, hence leniency. But for Bill Clinton, a gladhander...
...from 64 to 80 and plans to deliver zippy Net connections to the world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio frequencies that the company will require...
...different things," said the adviser. Clinton might survive, the adviser says, but the cost to the party and to the issues and interests for which the President stands would be too much to bear. "He can pull it out through force of personality and circumstance," says the adviser. "The problem is, even if that happens, people don't see an end, and the end they see is not a good one." One reason it was hard for anyone to round up Democratic elders to help save Clinton was that many of them too think privately that he should resign...
Hyde and Speaker Gingrich have it within their power to call a truce, but that's not in their interest. The problem here is that everything is already going their way: Republicans now talk of winning 15 to 20 new seats in November, a prospect that has the faithful and the financiers wanting to barbecue Clinton for at least a few more weeks. The party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many...
...more immediate problem is cost. Even at wholesale, Arava carries a price tag of about $3,000 for a year's treatment, and Enbrel could go for up to $10,000. Blood filtration might come in as high as $25,000. "It's expensive," admits Chad Deal of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, who participated in clinical trials of the blood-filtration system. "But the 10% to 20% of patients who aren't responding to other treatments are miserable, and their joints are still eroding." Given the alternative--and, with any luck, given reasonable insurance coverage--it's easy...