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...slows down on the health-care front, Clinton is still left with expensive campaign promises. , Among them: his pledge to establish a program for college loans that students could repay in national service instead of dollars, which could cost as much as $30 billion. Then there is his vow to "end welfare as we know it," which may save money in the long run but require more spending on health care, child care, job training and education. As he indicated in his speech Wednesday, Clinton also seems intent on spending money to develop an industrial policy by subsidizing technologies, industries...
...after the speech, Ronald Reagan presented a scorching critique on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Responding to Clinton's vow to "raise taxes on the people who did well in the 1980s," Reagan let fly: "Did I hear that right? Do they really believe that those who have worked hard and been successful should somehow be punished...
That left Washington to mount a friendly takeover of the Vance-Owen negotiations in the vague hope it could somehow make them turn out better. How much Clinton expects to change the existing plan is uncertain, though U.S. officials did vow not to force anything on Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Secretary of State Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current...
...female appointees, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and now Reno are unmarried and have no children; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and U.N. Representative Madeleine Albright have grown kids; only EPA chief Carol Browner has to worry about child care. So much for the President's vaunted vow to create a government "that looks like America...
...slip off words when we enter a sacred space, just as we slip off shoes. A "moment of silence" is the highest honor we can pay someone; it is the point at which the mind stops and something else takes over (words run out when feelings rush in). A "vow of silence" is for holy men the highest devotional act. We hold our breath, we hold our words; we suspend our chattering selves and let ourselves "fall silent," and fall into the highest place...