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WILLIE BROWN HAS NEVER WORKED so hard in his life. As speaker of the California assembly until last June, he was one of the wiliest and most powerful politicians in the state. Last week he was at a subway stop in San Francisco, grabbing for the hands of voters as they rushed for the perennially late trains. "In San Francisco politics is a contact sport," says Brown. "All my campaigns added together haven't been this hard! You have to personally shake hands with every single person in this city. And if you don't, they're insulted...
...Radcliffe Writing Life Conference, an intensive one-day writing workshop, featured award-winning author Rosellen Brown as keynote speaker yesterday...
Buckley was the featured speaker of the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, an annual program which explores issues of the involvement of media in politics...
Does he really mean it? After promising a New Hampshire voter five months ago that he would help form a panel on campaign finance reform, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has finally asked President Clinton to collaborate on a 16-member, bipartisan commission to address the issue. "Gingrich has no choice but to be serious," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Not only is it a top priority of the powerful Republican freshman class, it's become a hot campaign issue." Among the early Gingrich proposals: that PACs be limited to $1,000 contributions while raising the individual giving ceiling...
...button on the budget. Even as the House and Senate prepare to reconcile their respective GOP-proposed budget bills, President Clinton is threatening to veto the result. Gingrich nevertheless sounded an optimistic note after the meeting with the President. "We discussed budget issues in general terms," said the Speaker, "and that was very helpful." But there was no agreement. TIME White House Correspondent James Carney reports that the meeting results could be more positive than the sides are willing to admit. "Reading between the lines, it looks like we're heading toward a compromise that would extend the debt ceiling...