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...from voting. That fueled a growing fear that the Republicans could pick up enough seats in the House and as many as six Senate slots to make their power exponentially greater, impervious to filibuster. White House aides fanned out among lobbyists and labor unions and financiers last week to shore up support, having backers call lawmakers and urge them to stand by the President. Most of them just kept quiet...
...introductions and adopted a modified Nancy Reagan gaze as she listened to the President at Friday's prayer breakfast, although a friend jokes that if the President apologizes one more time, Hillary will kill him. Sensing an opening, aides are pushing her hard to go on TV to shore up the President. But if she reads the report and has any feelings left at all, the only honest reaction will be to let him this time twist slowly in the wind...
...initiative's moment, however, has clearly passed. "Even the little good that could have been accomplished by the President using his bully pulpit has been squandered," says Branegan. That doesn't mean that it was not a total loss; the report may help shore up the President's support in a key constituency. "The race initiative maintained Clinton's positive standing in the black community," says Branegan. "And polls show that they've stuck by him throughout the Monica crisis...
...worst to sit next to on a plane: Gilbert Gottfried, Pauly Shore...
...millions of people live and work. But there may be some consolation: The epic struggle against the flooding has drawn tens of millions of ordinary people away from their jobs and day-to-day concerns. Soldiers, farmers and city dwellers have thrown themselves into the battle to shore up dikes, save lives and repair the damage, creating scenes reminiscent of the idealistic propaganda images of the 1950s. The floods remind the Chinese that even in an everyone-for-themselves market economy they share a common destiny; a destiny which they are able to shape by acting as a community...