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...face of rising protests, congressional leaders urged House members to "hold your nose and vote" for the proposal. Bush gave them as much support as he could, canceling a campaign trip to lobby House members in small groups. While Bush played the good cop -- winning the support of a Florida Congressman by telephoning his sick daughter -- some of his staff engaged in hardball. On Monday chief of staff John Sununu enraged Republicans at a White House meeting by suggesting that the President might actually campaign against members of his own party who opposed the deficit package. When Pennsylvania Congressman Bill...
...with his armed robbery of an entire country. As the U.S. rushed to battle stations, an aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney exulted, "We're coming on like gangbusters!" And as it turns out, the commander of Operation Desert Shield, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, is the son of the cop turned radio star...
...spite of the good cop-bad cop routine, the talks went nowhere. Gradually, it dawned on the White House that the Democrats were stalling -- and scoring political points as a result. By mid-June the Democrats were threatening to walk out of the talks unless the President made a public commitment to tax increases, reversing his most cherished campaign pledge -- and his most potent weapon for bashing the other party...
...Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos: "My first reaction when I read the parents' manual was that there wasn't a thing there that I didn't firmly believe in, but I'd been too afraid to do it on my own. It sounds like such a cop-out, but we wanted Sara to be happy...
...COP ROCK (ABC, debuting Sept. 26, 10 p.m. EDT). The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore. Steven Bochco's musical cop show is the fall's most audacious newcomer...