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...June, when several senior staffers complained directly to the candidate about Thomases' tendency to meddle in areas like polling that were far outside her formal role as Hillary's staff director. The ultimate resolution was Thomases' new job as the campaign's internal Dr. No -- the final authority to resist demands on Bill Clinton's time. In a larger shift, campaign chairman Mickey Kantor was in effect kicked upstairs to handle long-term planning on such contingencies as a Clinton-Gore transition as well as handholding the egos of Democratic powers...
...clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner on humanitarian relief...
...duiker every two days, arguing that such brief hunts would in no way affect the forest. Since then, however, he has realized that conservationists should not introduce hunting where animals have never learned to fear humans. Moreover, only if there is a total ban on hunting will the Pygmies resist the temptation to exploit this immensely productive ecosystem...
...addition, many private insurance companies resist paying for the drug. "The miracle of clozapine has turned into a mirage," says Laurie Flynn, executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. "You can see it. You can read about it. But you can't get it." The Flynn family, in Alexandria, Va., had to pay an extra $6,000 in insurance to obtain coverage that allowed their daughter Shannon, 24, to use clozapine. Once seriously ill, the young woman has recovered sufficiently to graduate from Georgetown University and hold a part-time job at NIMH...
...office along Washington's Mall, looks west as if he were surveying this huge land, then says, "By the end of this century, 80% of the cropland will be in residue management. It will be the greatest change in agriculture in 100 years." Some will disagree; others will resist. But there is the feeling in Washington and among the farmers that the revolution cannot be reversed...