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...matter which party wins the House, the arithmetic of a narrow majority seems certain to vest the balance of power in the center. The more important the legislation, the more it will require bipartisan support. Tempered by the public's wrathful reaction to their record in 1995, Gingrich's troops have lately been compromising to get bills passed and signed by the President. In August, that strategy produced laws reforming welfare, making health care portable from job to job and increasing the minimum wage. And just last week Republicans agreed to meet Clinton's demand that they restore...
Perot and his advisers have deflected Lamm's repeated requests for their intentions. "I've never seen people play it so close to the vest," Lamm says. "But," he adds, "I've had an epiphany. This guy is testing me." By this calculus Lamm passes Perot's exam by showing he can rally Perotistas and be an effective advocate for reining in entitlement spending and reforming the campaign-finance system. Lamm intends to use his candidacy as a "national teach-in" on those issues...
...appearance at Oxford, Simpson dressed in a black Donna Karan jacket, a white shirt, a gray sweater vest and a gray-and-black-striped Armani tie--creating a faux morning-coat effect that made him look like an extra from Four Weddings and a Funeral. After receiving a warm round of applause from the 1,000 students crammed together on the brown leather benches of the elegant 1871 Union Debating Chamber, Simpson tried a few quips, only to be interrupted by Fiona Maazel, an American at Oxford for her junior year abroad. "You can make your jokes, but this...
...Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting...
...weeks ago I was at this panel discussion listening to someone tell me how to be Asian-American. He was Chinese-American. He had a triangular mohawk. He had a snazzy floral-print vest...