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...spite of the odds against them, Clinton's team is oddly sanguine about the coming Senate fight, set to begin on June 7 when the Finance Committee takes up the House-passed bill. The chief obstacle is Boren, from oil-rich Oklahoma, who opposes the energy tax and is the pivotal vote on the panel. Administration officials believe they may still pick off Boren, but Democrats on Capitol Hill are already talking darkly of retribution if he doesn't fall into line. One likely target: the Senator, regarded as pompous and self- important even by Senate standards, helped create...
...carry those big, heavy buckets sent up from the White House. But I never got to splash any water. Now I see ((Senate majority leader George)) Mitchell carrying the buckets, and he's getting round shoulders." Meanwhile, Dole could sit back, enjoy the show and, in spite of his 69 years, entertain thoughts of running for President again...
...years ago, Andy Grundberg wrote in The New York Times an elegant, perfectly plausible but ultimately premature obituary about the death of post-modernism. It continues to flourish, commanding the attention of academics in spite of near-fatal attacks. Not only is it no longer laying siege to the establishment, it has become a part...
...encourage them to wait. "Make sure even the first kiss is a memorable experience, is what I tell kids," she says. "I don't think kids should be engaging in sex too early, not even necking and petting. I generally think age 14 and 15 is too early, in spite of the fact that by then girls are menstruating and boys may have nocturnal emissions...
...this the time to get out of stocks? In spite of the danger signs, few Wall Street gurus foresee a sharp downturn anytime soon, as long as interest rates stay low. That's because investors still have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates...