Word: coverly
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...responsibilities at HHS are immense, and cover much of the Bush agenda. Medicare. Medicaid. Social Security. Welfare. And abortion policy. Thompson has a reputation as a workhorse, a details man and a good aisle-crosser, and after turning up his nose at Washington during the first Bush administration - calling it "Disneyland East" - he says he's ready to move in and get to work on health-care reform, welfare reform and bio-technology. "I am absolutely passionate about these issues," Thompson said Friday by way of introduction...
...From 1965 onward, the strip skyrocketed. When Schulz's "bunch of funny-looking kids" appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in April, "Peanuts" was embraced as the embodiment of the fundamental wisdom of the day. The strip and its characters had gone from being a campus phenomenon in the late 1950s to a mainstream cultural powerhouse. Throughout the '60s and early '70s, the visual and verbal vocabulary of the strip was one of the only languages that kept both the younger and older generation fluent with each other. Schulz's phrase "security blanket," and his ideas about that most...
...Camp David may have set the peace process back years, and Israel appears poised to elect another right-wing government committed to hitting the rewind button while Palestinian public opinion hardens against compromises with Israel. Moreover, the moderate Arab regimes on which Washington has traditionally relied to provide political cover for Arafat are themselves under increasing domestic pressure to distance themselves from Israel and the U.S. While a comprehensive peace appears beyond reach in the near term, the U.S. shares an interest with both the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships in containing the escalation of conflict...
When Theman.com was launched last year in an office opposite the San Francisco Giants' new ballpark, most employees expected to be around for at least a couple of baseball seasons. "Right now we're a zit compared to everyone else," co-founder Calvin Lui said in our September 1999 cover story, GetRich.com "In a year we're not going to be a zit." In fact, Lui's start-up--intended as a one-stop online shop and community for guys--closed its doors for the last time...
...Invitation to the White House), was the center of a bidding war last week over her memoirs, as publishers courted her with huge sums. In the end, she said yes to Simon & Schuster, reportedly for an $8 million advance. The publishing house will have to sell 1.5 million hard-cover copies to recoup that kind of money. Clinton has promised that she will spill the beans, in a "dignified" way, about the Clintons' eight years in office--including MONICA LEWINSKY. Indeed, talking about the former intern was key to the frenzy. A publishing executive who dropped out of the bidding...