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...that was to have been a top priority for the Surgeon General, without risking the pain of confirmation hearings. "There are two interpretations to this," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "One is that this is Clinton unable to restrain himself. He wins points with conservatives for the push to rein in teen pregnancy, but then he appoints a man they strongly oppose to head up the effort. The other explanation is that this is a sop to the pro-choice lobby. Clinton is tacking to the right, but then appoints their guy to run things." Foster will not be paid...
...education, Medicare and taxes. "For three years this administration has valued dependence on government over self-reliance. Federal power over community, federal planning over individual enterprise. It has tried to place government experts in charge of our economy and our health and our lives." The Republican solution? "We must rein in our runaway government, return power to the people, reduce the tax burden. Put parents back in charge of our schools. Untie the hands of our police. Restore justice to our courts and put our faith once again in the basic goodness, wisdom and self-reliance of our people...
...Goodgame, the Speaker was a chastened man coping with the fact that he has become a liability to the party he helped transform. He arrived with his hair still wet from his morning swim, and his mood during the hour-and-a-half session was cautious; he remembered to rein himself in. In fact, he joked about how careful he has to be these days, quickly and comically correcting himself (changing "grotesque" to "sad," for instance, to describe his recent media coverage, and calling psychologist turned politician Lenora Fulani first a "nut candidate," then the more euphemistic "candidate of limited...
Last week, on the day before the House approved a bill to keep better track of lobbyists, R.N.C. chairman Haley Barbour mailed fund-raising letters to many of the lobbyists the bill is supposed to rein in. Even in a city inured to the crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention...
...vote, is likely to withstand a veto anyway. In a few weeks, reports Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed limit to 70 mph over 77,000 miles of Texas highways. A number of like-minded Western states are giving motorists freer rein: Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming will raise the limit to 75 mph, while Oklahoma and South Dakota will set theirs at 70. The best state for Unser wannabes? Montana, where the only limit will be how fast eight cylinders can move...