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...rhetoric was totally devoid of surprise: Ask Donna Shalala who won, you get a solid vote for Gore. Ask Karl Rove the same question, you get a big shout-out for Bush. And Al Franken milled about, sounding sarcastic...
...where information is power and officials pride themselves on having the inside scoop, virtually everyone learned that the Food and Drug administration approved the revolutionary abortion pill called mifepristone from - of all places - CNN. President Clinton learned about it only moments earlier from Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. And Shalala got the news by telephone from FDA commissioner Jane Henney - after the FDA made the announcement public...
...TIME has learned that Shalala was so concerned about the administration being accused of ramrodding the abortion pill through the FDA for political reasons in the middle of a tight election that she made it clear to the White House that she did not want anyone there at all involved in the process at all. Message: Butt out. "She's smart," says a key HHS official. "She knew the press was going to ask whether any of this was done for political reasons, and she wanted to answer to be no." Shalala issued strict instructions to her staff to respond...
...other women mentioned for the position, Donna E. Shalala and Condoleezza Rice, are both well known in the political and academic arena...
...Shalala, the current secretary of health of human services, was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for seven years. Rice, who served as provost of Stanford from 1993 to 1999, is now a chief foreign policy advisor in the George W. Bush campaign and likely to become a chief presidential advisor to Bush if he is wins the election...