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...wait - Clinton is! "The projections could be wrong," he said. "They could be right. That's why we shouldn't spend it all now." Just $500 billion of it, split down the middle, for a good cause: One bit of legacy for Clinton and one for this Republican Congress. Fair enough? Afterward, Republicans couldn't have acted less interested. To them, a compromise offer from a lame-duck President means just one thing: Hold out for more. Especially when George W. Bush is up 13 percent in the polls...
...Real World's diversity may now be cliche--gay guy, meet the Asian girl; white beatnik, meet the alcoholic. (This year's gay guy, before coming out to his housemates, coyly announced he had "a secret," and regular viewers who had witnessed previous coming outs knew in a split second what it would be. If you use that line by the show's ninth season, you'd better have a severed head in your luggage.) But that casting has also proved genuinely worthwhile. Pedro Zamora explicitly used his stint on the series' third season to raise awareness of AIDS, which...
...split dramatically over every item on the agenda: Abortion, gay rights, gun control, hate crime laws, capital punishment, affirmative action, Elian Gonzalez. And so on. Nothing is orthodox or unorthodox anymore. We are all fist-shaking schismatics. Cultural pluralism gets wistful for certitudes. Inside every fox, there's a hedgehog ranting. Let me count some of the ways: Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated at the CBS offices in New York. They said they were angry because contestants on the CBS game show "Survivor" were roasting and eating rats. "RATS HAVE RIGHTS," the placards said...
...Appeals. Ask the company's attorneys, and they will tell you with unshakable confidence that the three-judge review panel of the appeals court, whoever those judges may be, will see the flaws in Jackson's reasoning and strike down all elements of his decision--not just the split-'em-up remedy but the findings of law and fact...
...guideline, for example, was supposed to read "choose beverages and foods that limit your intake of sugars." But after challenges from the sugar industry and a letter of protest to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman from 30 Senators, the USDA and HHS decided to split the difference. A headline was changed to...MODERATE YOUR INTAKE OF SUGARS, but the stronger advice to "limit your intake of beverages and foods that are high in added sugars" was left in the text...