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...bill isn't finished this week, majority leader Tom Daschle has threatened, he will keep the Senate in session through the July 4 recess. But Lott wants to string out the debate so HMO and insurance groups can get more attack ads on the air and G.O.P. Senators will have more time to round up votes for their poison-pill amendments. The American Association of Health Plans, for instance, has budgeted up to $5 million this year to attack the Kennedy bill, and is running a TV spot featuring a small-business owner in Texas who frets that the bill...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. Starting in the mid-'90s, tobacco makers suffered a string of setbacks, culminating in 1998 when the four largest firms settled with 46 states for $206 billion (over 25 years) to help pay for smoking-related illnesses. Big Tobacco agreed to curb advertising, stop marketing to minors (no more Joe Camel) and fund a national antismoking group to police their practices. In 1999 the Clinton Administration filed its suit. More recently, Philip Morris was assessed $3 billion in damages to a single smoker in California. Throw in price increases of more than...
...occasionally spoiled by the discomfort brought on by the sheer force of Lemmon's unrelenting loserishness. That success led the pair to a lifelong partnership that extended to co-starring in six more films (plus 1971's "Kotch," in which Lemmon directed Matthau to an Oscar nomination), a string that ended with the hits "Grumpy Old Men" and "Grumpier Old Men" and the tragically stale finale to the relationship, "The Odd Couple...
...sounds awful! Has the Wizard misplaced his magic? No, it's just a wand glitch: one guitar string, offensively flat, needs to be tightened. And now that it is, Paul can make terrific music, recalling his '50s hits with vocalist Mary Ford as well as his earlier and later jazz and country work. He plays 'Rainbow' largo, insinuating a delicate, wistful mood, then pricking it with a couple of puckish allusions to late-'50s guitar hits inspired by him: the monster chords of Link Wray's 'Rumble,' the seductive electronic weeping in Santo and Johnny's 'Sleep Walk.' Paul...
...oratory, honed at Islamic universities in Libya and Syria. He reverentially appropriated Sayyaf's name (which means "swordsman" in Arabic) for his group back home. In 1991, Abu Sayyaf struck its first blow by killing two American evangelists in a grenade blast in Zamboanga. This was followed by a string of kidnappings, massacres and extortion operations. Cassette tapes of Janjalani's jihad sermons began circulating, and other gangs of Moro brigands in the Sulu islands?who specialized in running drugs and guns, kidnapping and growing marijuana?accepted Janjalani as their chief. Abu Sayyaf's increasing notoriety attracted the notice...