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Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat who consults closely with the White House on health care, said he was getting an ominously fuzzy message. "If I'm getting any signals at all," he said, "it is in the direction of folding up the tent" for this year. In Congress, he observed, "people who want to do nothing and people who want to do too much are peeling off," leaving only a minority interested in modest steps and compromise. One of those splitting off on the left was Representative Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State who favors a "single payer...
Registration will take place at Dudley Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Returning students will register inside and the 569 first-year graduate students will matriculate in a tent outside...
...lately Washington has followed nearly identical policies toward them. It has enforced tight embargoes against trade and travel and even sent warships to prowl off both coasts. Starting last month, refugees fleeing both islands have been plucked from the waters off Florida and interned in side-by-side tent cities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...
...last week, too, the Clinton Administration's initial response to the renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than...
...Before winter, she declares, knowing that it is a foolish declaration, "I'm determined to find a $250 rental." Kevin Buckanaga, a server in a coffee shop, was happy to be subleasing a shed for $65 a month until he was evicted last month. He now lives in a tent three miles outside town...