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...increase to fund his health-care reform package. Unlike the essential, but invisible, benefits of deficit reduction, putting more police on the streets yields an immediate and tangible dividend. And by choosing an image dear to the hearts of Republicans, he had a chance of avoiding another ugly, partisan showdown. The bill's drafters took pains to appeal to the members across the aisle. "We took the best from both sides," said one. "That's what makes it a good bill...
...showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state flag. Georgia Governor Zell Miller's proposal to "purge the dark side of the Confederacy" -- again the battle emblem -- from that state flag failed earlier this year...
Such talk tends to stifle executives' natural desire to crow about their turnaround and invites them to downplay prospects as they head into labor ! talks. But some jubilant carmakers can't help themselves. "As the quality gap ceases to become a factor, what has emerged is a showdown over who is offering the better value," observes Chrysler president Lutz. "The war isn't over, but we've definitely landed on the beaches...
...White House has its Situation Room, the Pentagon its walls full of maps, but America's command center for fighting unconventional wars these days is Janet Reno's inner office. First it was the showdown with David Koresh in Waco, Texas, a biblical battle over lost souls; two weeks ago, it was terrorism, when she laid out for President Clinton the case against Iraq for plotting to kill former President Bush and tracked the serial bomber who wounded professors in Connecticut and California. Last week it was Sheik Rahman, when once again Reno's agents from...
...showdown involves the two teams that defeated Harvard earlier this season so neither team would be a walkover or anything close to it--in the finals on Sunday...