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...year. In addition to McCain, only three Senate Republicans--Thompson, Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania--have joined the 45 Democrats who signed on to this year's model, leaving the bill well short of the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster McConnell has sworn to bring against it. But with so much more attention on finance corruption, talking the bill to death would risk a public backlash against Republicans. So before it comes to that, Lott is likely this week to start attaching amendments designed to make Democrats flinch...
...common response. "You mean the great track star?" says one man. In city hall, behind the counter at the Department of Property and Taxation, the clerk recognizes her name ("Oh, we know exactly who she is") but says, "Are you sure she hasn't passed? I could have sworn I heard she passed...
...imagine the hardship and cruelty that Cambodians endured during Pol Pot's reign of terror. But Rosenblatt apparently let his imagination run wild when he blamed the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War as the destabilizing influence that allowed Pol Pot to flourish. I could have sworn we were bombing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops that sought refuge in Cambodia after attacking our own troops in South Vietnam. VINCENT IAMUNNO Huntersville...
...been an important reform in New Orleans, where the police department has come a long way from October 1994, when Officer Len Davis ordered a lethal hit on citizen Kim Groves for filing a brutality complaint against him. On the same day Groves was killed, Richard Pennington was sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent public-integrity division and to ban controversial restraining tactics such as choke holds and hog-tying...
...Starr the notes he sought: five pages about the First Lady's account of her actions after Foster's suicide, a dozen pages scribbled by lawyer Jane Sherburne during breaks in Hillary's January 1996 grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that the First Lady lied in sworn statements, especially about the Foster matter or the disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records. The White House says the notes are not incriminating, and most legal observers doubt the independent counsel will bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton...