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...regroup before a second and final vote Thursday. Overnight, Tumulty reports, Democratic lobbying will target four Republican senators, three of whom must change their minds if the Senate is to reach a decision on Foster: John Warner of Virginia, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Ted Stevens of Alaska and Mark Hatfield of Oregon. None, she says, is expected to budge...
...more recently, Sen. Mark O. Hatfield(R-Ore.), chair of the Senate AppropriationsCommittee, introduced two amendments to thebudget, either one of which would partiallyrestore the 10 percent cut in NIH funding assumedin the Domenici budget, leaving a cut of $1.7billion over the next seven years...
...Only Everything, singer-guitarist Juliana Hatfield moves from the forehead-slappingly obvious to the deftly oblique. On her last album, Become What You Are, she took swipes at easy targets like the grotesquely gorgeous Cindy Crawford set. This time, says Hatfield, "I wanted there to be more for people to sink their teeth into...
...songs are both more whimsical and more interesting. Dumb Fun, a vertiginous number with sporadic bass-guitar spasms, was composed by stringing together semi-random passages from a notebook of ideas Hatfield had been keeping for about six months. "Had a heart by accident," goes one line of the song. Another track, the idiosyncratic Fleur de Lys, is sung entirely in French...
While her meanings have grown more elusive, Hatfield's melodies--as well as her light, birdlike voice--have grown more assertive. One song, Universal Heart-Beat, puckishly combines R.-and-B. electric-piano tickles with grubby rock-guitar riffs. And the shimmering, lovely Simplicity Is Beautiful is the most moving song she has yet composed. Hatfield's earlier CDs showed promise but didn't fully deliver. The enjoyably ambiguous Only Everything sends a clear message that she's a true talent...