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...going to be an excruciatingly delicate negotiation. Some Republicans said they could live without soft money if the hard-money limits were tripled, as Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, a McCain ally, proposed. But some Democrats would never go that high. Dianne Feinstein of California had proposed $2,000, and Daschle had made it clear that was the absolute maximum he could accept...
...program's major success stories is the initiative "Wisconsin Works," developed by former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson to move welfare recipients to the workforce...
...sole ex-Yugoslav Republic untouched by conflict, no one wanted to rock the boat, despite ample warnings that relations between the majority Slavs and the 23% Albanian minority were volatile. "It was not the international will to hold the Macedonian government strictly to account on human rights," says Mark Thompson, Balkans program director for the International Crisis Group. Observes Henryk Sokalski, the Polish U.N. special representative who headed unpredep from 1995 to 1998: "We got a lot of visits and many great words complimenting Macedonia. But it was more verbal support than anything else...
...Whatever the causes, anti-smoking advocates, including HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and Surgeon General David Satcher, pledge to refocus energy and resources on fighting what Satcher terms "the epidemic" of female smoking and smoking deaths. Women's health organizations won't be far behind: This is one arena, after all, where women don't want to give men a run for their money...
Margaret Edson's affecting, Pulitzer prize-winning play about an English professor dying of cancer has been adapted for TV with taste and resourcefulness by director Mike Nichols. The subject is so strong, and Emma Thompson's performance so moving, that it seems a shame to carp. But the TV movie, like the play, treads a predictable path, especially in its portrayal of the insensitive doctors. And the most courageous and startling moment in the stage version--the middle-aged protagonist disrobes in a burst of light at the very end--is inexplicably gone...