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Otherwise his pace is relentless. Since announcing his candidacy in April, Dole has flown 39,000 miles. None of those who work closely with him believe the Senator is flagging. Concedes Ron Klain, staff director of the Democratic Policy Committee and spokesperson for minority leader Tom Daschle: "I don't see any speed off his fast ball...
...N.R.A. IS BEYOND DOUBT THE ATF'S most committed opponent. Over the years the 3.5 million-member organization has built an infrastructure to ensure that far-flung cases of alleged ATF abuse get direct scrutiny from Congress. The organization is relentless. "The natural enemy of a gopher is a rattlesnake," says Gerry Spence, the flamboyant Wyoming defense attorney who defended Randy Weaver after the federal siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. "The natural enemy of the N.R.A...
Paying to see "Clueless" is not really mandatory. You can learn most of the jokes by surfing the reviews and get a hint of star Alicia Silverstone's blithe luster by watching MTV's relentless promotions. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans in the mid '90s. As Cher, a popular Beverly Hills high schooler toiling as a matchmaker and makeover adviser to a clumsy friend, Silverstone is the model of conspicuous consumption: wanting, having and wearing, in style. But Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") succeeds in getting the viewer...
...latest threat comes from Congress, which is moving toward substantial reductions in the growth of Medicare spending and major cuts in the funding of the National Institutes of Health, two important sources of subsidy for teaching hospitals. But the greatest long-range problem is the relentless spread of health-maintenance organizations (HMOS) and managed-care networks. Teaching hospitals traditionally have charged heavy fees for fairly routine procedures to cover the high costs of training and research. Cost-conscious hmos and insurance networks frequently refuse to pay those prices. Since the teaching hospitals cannot survive by performing liver transplants and brain...
...palace of wisdom, but in Mapplethorpe's case it seems to have led only to more excess. The one human relationship that comes alive in the book is his lifelong friendship with the rock singer and poet Patti Smith. Her tortured soulfulness, however, contrasts with Mapplethorpe's relentless superficiality; his photographs of her are the only ones that do not seem oppressively clinical. (Even his images of flowers look denatured...