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Even so, ardent supporters of Clinton's original plan, both in the White House and on the Hill, view the rump-group proposal as little more than a convenient, temporary tool for getting a proposal past the Finance Committee. Once that happens, they expect Mitchell to fashion a bill for consideration by the full Senate drawn largely from the Labor Committee proposal. That plan retains Clinton's provision requiring companies to pay for 80% of their workers' insurance premiums, an idea that small-business lobbyists have all but killed...
...avoidance of it, seems to be a theme which ties "White" with "Blue." Julie in "Blue" was sentenced by Fate to solitude. She claimed it as independence. In "While," Karol reclaims the power he has lost with the end of his marriage and uses his sex as a bargaining tool. Again, this is a liberation of sorts from the traditional role which assigns women the role of using sex for power. Here the usual is reversed and a new story unfolds. Karol cannot maintain his marriage because of his impotence. He is not allowed to stay with...
...bloody gloves -- one at the murder scene, one at O.J.'s mansion. Then there were the bloody clothes in his washing machine, and the ski mask, and the stains on his driveway and in his car. The weapon was an antique samurai sword, then a sharp-edged military entrenching tool, the newspapers revealed, before the district attorney announced that no weapon & had been found. He's killed himself, the Wall Street trading floors buzzed on Wednesday morning, before he appeared that afternoon at his ex-wife's wake...
...Pentagon analyst, "a joke" that is more likely to surrender early and create a political problem than fight a guerrilla war. But after defeating the army -- which a Pentagon official estimates would be "finished up by dawn" -- the situation gets messy fast. Military force can be an effective tool for toppling regimes, but as a means of rebuilding societies, it is a blunt instrument the U.S. has not wielded effectively in similar cases, such as Somalia...
...going to meet the challenges of this new era, we will need to use every tool available, a strong defense, strong alliances, vigorous diplomacy, better U.N. peacekeeping, more effective multilateral sanctions and firm support for the requirements of international law," Albright said...