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Former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey today became the first Democrat to threaten a 1996challenge to President Clinton. Casey, who just finished two terms as governor, established an exploratory committee to raise funds for a campaign. He is expected to decide whether to run by May. Casey, who opposes abortion rights, has complained that the Clinton Administration is filled with "left-wing ideologues." He had a heart and liver transplant in 1993. If he does run, he'll be running uphill.TIME Washington correspondent Michael Duffysays Clinton's approval rating among Democrats has dramatically improved this year, especially in early primary states...
...amounts to a holy war within his party. Last week moderates like Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut put Clinton on notice that they want reforms as a way to win back the white male voters that Democrats need to have any chance of regaining majority status. But that would threaten the party's support among minorities and women and, worse, probably spark a challenge to the President in next year's election from Jesse Jackson, who talked cordially to Clinton about affirmative action last week but is still making the programs' protection his litmus test...
...their relationship are exposed. Paul longs to be the Kittredges' son and spiritual heir while Ouisa needs the genuine emotional connection which she and Paul share. This extended scene is the production's greatest triumph, never succumbing for a moment to the maudlin and vaguely mystical undertones which constantly threaten to swamp Guare's dialogue There is a good deal of symbolism at the send involving a double-sided Kandinsky, which one struggles to resolve into some kind of coherent meaning, but this production wisely downplays it as much as possible, allowing the genuine emotions to take our full attention...
...heart of this searing look at family life are strong performances from the only actors on the set with real film experience, Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison. Morrison plays a seductive and dangerously violent Jake Heke whose outbursts threaten to tear his family apart forever. Owen plays the resilient and fiery Beth Heke whose defiance and intelligence infuriate the brutish Jake. When a savage beating prevents her from appearing in court on behalf of her delinquent young son, Beth begins to realize how little Jake cares for his family. With the help of her daughter Grace, an aspiring young writer...
President Clinton is writing letters to Boris Yeltsin, trying to convince him that NATO's expansion to the east will not threaten a "cold peace...