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...N.B.A. finals, so it was in the World Series: New York vs. Houston. A titanic tussle! Great glove work by Don Mattingly (his first Series in a noble 13-year career) and, for the Astros, some clutch hits by Yankee reject Andy Stankiewicz. The seventh game was a 1-1 tie after 26 innings, equaling the record set by Brooklyn and Boston in 1920. In the top of the 27th, the Yanks got four runs off late-season call-back Mitch Williams. In the home half of the inning, Houston loaded the bases but had exhausted its roster. Who would...
...gist of Mitchell's idea is to have everybody buy his own insurance. As with the original Clinton plan, his would forbid insurers to reject any applicant because of pre-existing health problems. The bill would also place limits on how much premiums could rise, in part through a 25% tax on health- insurance plans whose premiums grow faster than an approved rate. The poor would get government help to pay for coverage, with the subsidies going first to poor children and pregnant women. Funding would come partly from a new tax on cigarettes of 45 cents a pack...
...understand why. The logic of Paul Hill -- that abortion equals baby killing, that there is a "holocaust" going on and that therefore killing an abortionist is "justifiable homicide" -- may be insane, but it is more consistent than the logic of those who share all of Hill's premises but reject his conclusion...
...Studio 54 would be Liza and Halston and Bianca, and so on down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel, who may or may not be hip but was hip to this: "All you need are looks and a whole lotta money...
...Bosnian Serb assembly, following up on a threat made yesterday, voted unanimously to put a peace plan, sponsored by the West, to a referendum by the end of August. The Bosnian Serb population is expected to follow their leaders' cue and reject the plan...