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During meetings on the Hill, Senate leaders discussed health-care reform with Clinton -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, that is. Ms. Clinton (with Senate majority leader George Mitchell) will shepherd the President's plan through Congress. She earned points by saying that she will listen to those who back other reform models...
SALVATORE ("TOTO") RIINA, WHO listed his occupation as shepherd, once said the surest cure for a sore finger is to cut off the arm to which it is attached. Last week Italy's organized-crime network was decapitated when the 62-year-old godfather of the Sicilian Mafia was arrested as his car sat stuck in Palermo's rush-hour traffic...
...young man on a motorcycle. "Knowing too much about that stuff is dangerous." It will remain so, even with Riina behind bars. At least five members of the Cupola are still at large. According to some sources, they long ago sketched out an agreement on how to divide the shepherd's fields and flock...
...Jerry views himself as the shepherd for all these lost lambs. "I'm on their side," he affirms emphatically...
Prepared as he was for an Alpine outing, how did the Iceman perish? And what was he doing so high in the mountains? To Egg, the evidence suggests that the Iceman could have been a shepherd, part of a group tending sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia...