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...decision to look into alleged fundraising irregularities in President Clinton's 1996 campaign is beginning to look like an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime."It appears there's no strategy or plan," says TIME Washington Correspondent Viveca Novak. "Everyone is looking for leadership from either incoming Speaker Bob Livingston or retiring Speaker Newt Gingrich, but so far they haven't stepped up to the plate...
That challenge has got harder for the slim G.O.P. majority in the House, where big ideas can falter on just six votes. Speaker-elect Bob Livingston and his team are promising tax cuts, more money for defense and a new way of bookkeeping that will do away with the accounting trick of using Social Security money to mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely...
...pleasant living amid this. Just ask Julia Howell and her husband Bob. The couple live on a farm near Hooker, about midway between Guymon and Liberal, where four generations of Howells have grown wheat and raised families. Now feisty Julia Howell, 69, talks about her "40,000 neighbors" and explains why she seals the farmhouse windows, stuffs pillows into the chimney and seldom ventures outdoors without a face mask...
...hammer... A woman who sat in front of BOB VILA on an airline flight is seeking $127,000 from the world's most famous handyman for pain and mental anguish. Carol Berger claims that Vila, host of Home Again, took a break from pounding dry wall to pound the back of her seat with his foot and fist during a flight from Denver to Eugene, Ore. She didn't mention why. Vila issued a statement calling the allegation "baseless" and says he has never met Berger. Maybe he was just annoyed that her seat and tray table were...
...intense between former top aides JACK QUINN and PETER KNIGHT. Also in the running for major roles are current chief of staff RON KLAIN, Housing Secretary ANDREW CUOMO and former aides ROY NEEL and ELAINE KAMARCK. Gore is said to be relying heavily on the advice of political consultant BOB SQUIER, moneyman TERRY MCAULIFFE and pollster MARK PENN--the troika that many expect to have actual control when it's time to hit the trail...