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...MORNING OF NOV. 1, AND "NEWTSIE," as Dole affectionately refers to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has thrown a fit. Gingrich and Dole are only hours away from their first serious sit-down with Bill Clinton to discuss the Republican budget. But Gingrich is threatening to scrap the long-awaited session. The morning's New York Times has quoted White House spokesman Mike McCurry describing the planned session as an "encouraging" concession on the part of the Republican leadership. "That's enough," Gingrich cries. "I'm not going down there [to the White House...
...lost means more cuts will be needed to meet the budget targets of fiscal 1996. And nothing is more important in proving their credibility to voters. A seven-year budget is, after all, merely a promise--a plan that can be rewritten with each new session of Congress or thrown out completely. "Really, what matters is this first year," says Indiana freshman Mark Souder. "That's what we have to run on." This is another way of saying that a first step is better than a stumble...
...backlash has also thrown the more respectable opponents of Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank on the defensive. Rabin's widow Leah has repeatedly accused Likud, the chief opposition party, and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, of tolerating, if not helping to whip up, the climate of violence that felled her husband. Netanyahu, in a telephone interview with TIME, responded with uncharacteristic mildness. "If the left can draw a distinction between moderate and extreme Palestinians," he said, "at least they could do the same for our own people...
...Holsteins are trapped in their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower hunter. A sad fate for a virtuous creature who lets down her milk twice a day and never is a problem to anybody...
...show this season. Compiled in part by Friends executive producer Kevin Bright, a music buff with an 8,000-volume record collection, the CD reflects the sitcom's young, urban sensibility. "What I didn't want to do was just put out a bunch of songs haphazardly thrown together behind a brand name known as Friends," says Bright...