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WASHINGTON--The Hat-fields have declared a truce with the McCoys...
Hyde and Speaker Gingrich have it within their power to call a truce, but that's not in their interest. The problem here is that everything is already going their way: Republicans now talk of winning 15 to 20 new seats in November, a prospect that has the faithful and the financiers wanting to barbecue Clinton for at least a few more weeks. The party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many...
...succumbs to illness, Kate must take on the final duty of a dutiful life--mediating some kind of truce between her husband George, walled off from reality by his professorial abstractions and his huge but fragile ego (a perfect role for William Hurt, that most self-regarding of actors), and her daughter Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening...
...clear the air-I'm proposing a truce. This is an institutional matter, and I think that you, Mr. Cleary, as head of the athletic department, should have something to say about this to a major news source for your students. Nothing personal should get in the way of that duty...
...Since then, an uneasy truce has settled over the Jones campaign. "There's a ceasefire," says Branegan. "Whitehead is not happy about this fund, but he's not going to do anything about it." Except, that is, for unconfirmed reports that Whitehead has turned over copies of those letters to Judge James Henry Michael in Charlottesville, who is investigating President Clinton?s claims that Paula Jones brought her suit for personal profit. If that is true, Whitehead may have taken his ultimate revenge on the Legal Fund -- and shot the Jones case in the foot...