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...Semitism. The name game is enough. Let him cite some act of economic villainy--trade deals, for instance, or the effort to push the Mexican bailout through Congress--and he's apt to put a Jewish name at the scene of the crime. His favorites are Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Buchanan insists he's not sending out an anti-Semitic signal. Somehow anti-Semites are hearing it anyway. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the vaudeville-ready Russian presidential contender, was moved to send Buchanan fraternal greetings last week...
...most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade. Larson has updated La Boheme and set it among the artists, addicts, prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer who longs for one great song to leave behind...
...Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
...after the November elections. As Sam Brownback told me today, 'Instead of going for the long bomb, let's grind it out on the ground.'" The next big hurdle for negotiators: reaching an agreement on extending federal borrowing authority past the March 1 deadline set by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Markets and Congressional negotiators trembled Wednesday when Moody's threatened to downgrade its rating of $387 billion in U.S. bonds because it said the budget impasse had 'significantly increased the risk of a default.' Urged on by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's offer to make a "down payment" on reaching...
...have some leverage, given its advantage over Congress in the polls." Interest payments on the national debt are due on February 15th. If Republicans refuse to authorize a higher debt ceiling, the federal government could default on its financial obligations for the first time. So far, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has avoided taking that step, thus buying President Clinton time and negotiating room, by tapping into federal trust funds, a maneuver that some Republicans say is unconstitutional and could lead to Rubin's impeachment. The White House scoffs at that suggestion, but White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said...