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Finally, in the person of Colin Powell, we have someone for whom the overworked cliche "piece of work" is precisely descriptive. Watching Powell consider running for President as a Republican or as an independent, or perhaps on the bottom half of the G.O.P. ticket, is to encounter a master of animated caution. He is charismatic and focused. His thoughts are ordered and formed in complete sentences--a truly dying art. His entire aspect is commanding and confident. He can appear compassionate and tough, sober and humorous in the same instant. But for all his brilliance as a performer, what Powell...
...August. In addition to the New York episode, terrorist fears caused a partial evacuation of Philadelphia International Airport when a bomb-sniffing dog incorrectly drew attention to a rental truck, and at Houston's Hobby Airport, where a flight was grounded after a college student joked to a ticket agent that her luggage contained guns, grenades and a bomb. Technological glitches wreaked havoc not only in Fremont but also in Miami, where an air-traffic-control center lost power for an hour because of a lightning strike. Both sorts of delay no doubt enraged stranded passengers; but slowdowns are usually...
Hillary Clinton's speech to the Nongovernmental Organizations Women's Conference in a suburb of Beijing was such a hot ticket that even Donna Shalala had a hard time getting in. The Health and Human Services secretary and Winston Lord, an assistant secretary of state, were kept outside in the pouring rain for a half an hour until the two soaked Clinton Administration officials were admitted through a side door. Thousands more were kept out as more than 3,000 women packed into a 1,500-seat theater to hear the First Lady urge them to make the goals...
...theory is undoubtedly correct. But there are problems too. As mentioned, there are limits on people's ability and inclination to be rational consumers when it comes to health care. Furthermore, the worst health-care inflation is occurring in big-ticket items, such as major surgery, which cost more than the annual out-of-pocket threshold. The big savings to the government would come not from any triumph of market-based efficiency but simply from making seniors pay more of the cost. And the government would lose some of that money again if, as proposed, people are encouraged...
...G.O.P. opponents is swiping at the front runner with increasing ferocity, especially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator who staged a surprising tie at the Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone expected Dole to win handily. Of course the Iowa ballot was phony; anyone who bought a ticket could vote, even non-Iowans, and some confessed to having voted more than once. It was still a test of organizational strength, but it was only the first part of a two-pronged strategy: rough Dole up and then cause him to lash out. So everywhere Dole went last week--from Arizona...