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Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell tried to stake out the center today with a new health-care plan. His scheme aims to cover 95 percent of all Americans by the turn of the century. If this level isn't reached, employer mandates would kick in by the year 2002 -- something that should please the more liberal elements of Congress. Businesses, moreover, would pay only 50 percent of their employees' health care costs, not 75 percent as House Democrats would like. That's a bow to conservatives' wishes. Small businesses would also be exempt from this burden. While the plan received...
...Adams: No, not at all. There is no evidence at all of the perennial suggestion of a Republican split; there will be no Republican split. The difficulty is caused by the fact that until we kick-started this process there was no talk about a peace settlement. We had to bring the British government reluctantly around to the notion of looking for a new arrangement. We have to make sure we have a solid foundation; there are elements of the Downing Street Declaration, a joint peace plan presented by Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and Albert Reynolds of Ireland...
...didn't think he was fit for wiping our feet on," recalls Dyusenbek Nakipov, who grew up in the same neighborhood. "We sent him to buy cigarettes, and he would ask, 'May I join you guys?' The usual answer was, 'Get the fout of here,' or just a kick in the butt...
Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and mutter a few Gallic epithets. But Gangji, 41, one of the top professional umpires in tennis, chose to ignore this final frisson of petulance...
...games themselves have been rather incredible. Fans of any sport should be able to appreciate the deft footwork necessary to shield a ball from three attackers, or the agile kick that propels a ball on a perfect are to the far post of the goal. Soccer is, after all, just another game that asks for an object to be moved from one side of the field to another. Its mechanics are little different from football, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, polo and many others. Americans should have no trouble watching soccer avidly, when they spend so much time watching men move other...