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Having spent virtually his entire career in Congress--first as a Senate staff member, then as a House member, before winning a Senate seat in 1986--Daschle remains hopeful that whatever the outcome of the disputed election, he can get action on a patient's bill of rights and campaign-finance reform, which have long been stalled. In an interview with TIME on Friday, Daschle said there are just two options for the new Senate: paralysis by gridlock or a miraculous display of bipartisanship. "I think the odds are against the prospect of real bipartisanship," he admitted...
...Doesn't Get Any More Vintage...
...their own, world-famous designer PAULINE TRIGERE, 92, is helping out with a line of accessories especially for stylin' seniors. "When I go to the theater and the movies at night," says Trigere, "I see many people with walking sticks, and most of them are not pretty. If you get dressed to go to the theater, why shouldn't you have a nice gold stick to go with your gold jewelry?" The Trigere collection, making its debut online next week at goldviolin.com also features such practical items as a red ostrich box for pills and a matching purse to hold...
Corporate takeovers get all the attention. How could they not? Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake. Then there's the rock-star status of dealmakers like GE's Jack Welch. But the ugly truth about mergers, running at a record clip again this year, is that a great many don't work out. It should be no surprise, then, that amid so much merger mayhem, company divestitures are running high as well...
That often gets overlooked, and it's a shame because investors can really make a killing in bust-ups. I'm not talking about AT&T, by the way. That's a bust-up with problems, not the least being that it will take a numbing two years to get done. But Ma Bell's latest split makes the subject topical, especially with WorldCom's having just announced a split as well. I'm not talking about letter stocks either. Those are bust-ups in name only. Management of companies with a tracking stock still answer to the parent...