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...order" motion on the bill unless their concerns were addressed. G.O.P. Senators say they want the fat trimmed from the bill. However, acquiescing to the G.O.P. would create other serious problems: If the bill is changed, it would have to go back to the House for a vote -- a prospect that is likely to either derail it or delay it significantly, observers...
...blending himself into history and folklore may have been a strategy to deflect intimacy and embarrassing inquiry. Dawidoff suggests this view, with speculation that Berg had trouble living up to his billing as athlete-scholar- spy and actually felt unworthy. Just as likely, he feared the dull prospect of settling down after baseball and a good war and so decided to schedule the rest of his life as a series of away games...
...Providence reminds him of the buoyancy of the human spirit. "What's amazing to me is the extent to which people can remain cheerful," White says. "If it were not for the black church, their morale probably would have already collapsed." Lake Providence's glimmer of hope is its prospect of becoming a federal "empowerment zone." If it does, White plans to continue visiting the town to see the results. Though it will take years to turn things around, White has seen how government intervention can improve the lives of the poor. "Were it not for government assistance, these people...
That chilling prospect was not lost on the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was dispatched to Lagos by President Bill Clinton two weeks ago in hopes of defusing the crisis. Jackson stayed two days, then flew back to the U.S., warning that he saw little hope. Civil war in Nigeria, he suggested, would send shock waves throughout West Africa and make the ethnic conflagration that has engulfed Rwanda look like "child's play...
...became extremely proficient at large numbers of small launches. Then in the late '80s we decided to move to electronic and to concentrate on education and health. We thought launching big systems wasn't different from launching small ones. We were wrong." Bad timing was also a factor. The prospect of health-care reform and drug-industry mergers made it impossible to project ad revenues for the Medical News Network reliably...