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...White House acknowledged last week, there had been a collaborator. Barbara Feinman, a veteran book doctor, was hired by publisher Simon & Schuster to help organize the book and draft several chapters. Mrs. Clinton liked the initial chapters, say sources on Feinman's side. As the work progressed, Feinman stayed overnight at the White House and even accompanied the First Family to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last summer. In October, according to Feinman's side, Mrs. Clinton called the writer to say the work was fine. But after Feinman returned from a trip to Italy, the publisher told her the First Lady...
...Dole's campaign long ago market-tested a series of television spots attacking the Texas Senator, which a senior Dole campaign official boasts are unusually effective. What might those ads say? A Dole operative hints that they might compare Dole's war record with Gramm's five Vietnam-era draft deferments. In Iowa last Friday, Gramm ridiculed the Dole camp's frequent allusions to his military record, deftly making the point in the context of the budget talks. "If saying 'I served' is the best Bob Dole can do responding to a question about the budget, then I think...
...Simon Wiesenthal Center, the world's largest Jewish human rights organization, decided that enough is enough. Citing "the rapidly expanding presence of organized hate groups on the Internet," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, sent letters to hundreds of Internet access providers, asking them to help draft a code of ethics that would squelch Websites that promote bigotry and violence...
...easier for journalists to analyze the politics of an issue than the issue itself. When Bill Clinton was planning to restore relations with Vietnam, for example, the New York Times (like other outlets) led its story with the political perils facing a President who had avoided the draft. Fallows cites a series of similar cases: the crime bill's funding for more cops on the beat, the debate over immigration, raising Medicare premiums, ending welfare entitlements...
...centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter and simpler tax code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp is a longtime flat tax advocate, it seems...