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TIME's Dean Fischersays the fate of President Clinton's veto today of a Congressional bill that would have lifted theBosnian arms embargois tied closely to events in the Balkans. Although Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today said he believed Democrats had enough votes to sustain a Clinton veto when the Senate resumes Sept. 5, Fischer believes all that could change if the war expands in the next few weeks. "If things collapse over there, if the war widens, you may see even more Democrats vote for lifting the embargo." Besides Congress, Fischer notes, the White House...
President Clinton threatened to veto theBut even if the president can sustain this veto in the event it passes through the Senate, the Republicans have other regulatory agencies in their sights. "You've got to remember that the Republicans' goal is to pass deregulation," saidTIME's Nina Burleigh. "No matter what Clinton says, they're going to push for deregulation." The Republicans maintain that they are not anti-environment, only anti-bureaucracy. The House vote reinstated 17 provisions which would block the EPA from regulatingcommercial development in wetlands, air pollution from refineries, water pollution from city sewers, and pesticides...
Rhythm is the dominating factor of Mum and Shah; the characters speak in poetry and move in dance. Even the music and the lighting help sustain the cadence. The audience is lulled into the performance's magic and dreamlike aura...
While minor differences will undoubtedly be ironed out, more serious questions remain about whether both nations can sustain political and economic support for such an ambitious project. NASA originally estimated that working with the Russians would shave $4 billion off the space station's cost. Later the estimate was revised to $2 billion, then $1.5 billion. A recent report by the General Accounting Office put the savings at a mere $600 million...
...named a cocktail after him either. Got a real name-recognition problem here. Got a real length problem too. Braveheart runs almost three hours, and though it's full of incident, including several big and expertly staged battle sequences, it really doesn't have enough on its mind to sustain our full attention over that span. Freedom, Wallace keeps telling everyone, is a good thing, worth dying for. Tyranny, on the other hand, is a bad thing. It leads to rape and pillage, and besides, its soldiers always march in straight lines, which is stupid...