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Lame duck be damned - President Clinton wants to canter, if not gallop, through his last year in office. His swan song State of the Union address Thursday outlined a wide-ranging laundry list of new initiatives, from a modest tax break to big spending initiatives in health care and education, and pressed his Republican opponents on gun control and on a patients' bill of rights. "This is an ambitious agenda for a lame-duck presidency," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But then his popularity is very high compared with, say, Ronald Reagan...
...hassle-free status into a marketing tool. All things being equal, it's hard to imagine anyone not choosing the bank that shields them from name-butchering telemarketers trying to push life insurance or investment "opportunities." The reform drew immediate praise from consumer groups, including the Consumers Union and the ACLU, which, in the wake of computerization, have increasingly focused on protecting the privacy of personal data. In response to these lobbying efforts, Congress passed a law in November that prevents banks from releasing a customer's financial data to outside firms if the customer asks them not to (which...
...going to reel in the vice president's lead. Where Bush had done his best to look presidential and hold himself above the fray, Gore didn't have to. He'll get plenty of opportunity to look statesmanlike Thursday night behind President Clinton during the State of the Union address. The administration's record is the centerpiece of Gore's campaign, and that record has no finer salesman than President Clinton during his annual policy address. Gore simply has to show up and reap the dividend...
...nearly 30 years that followed, Levin rose to become one of the most powerful men in media, just as Case has rocketed to a similar throne in cyberspace. Their union last week was cemented by a number trailed by so many zeros that it was easy to miss the fact that more than anything, this was a marriage of two protogeeks. Case, who began his romance with computers by building his own Kaypro PC, and Levin, whose love of media began when he was tucked in bed as a child, snug as a bug, he recalls, listening...
...Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (Random House; 422 pages; $25.95), New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin retells the whole tale with gusto and adds some fresh details. One example: a moist-eyed Clinton hails the Travelgate-embattled Hillary in his 1996 State of the Union Address as a "wonderful wife [and] magnificent mother"--and then autographs a copy of the speech as a gift for Monica Lewinsky. Toobin doesn't shy away from the story's tawdriest moments--like the Jones camp's suggestion that Clinton may have undergone surgery to remove the "distinguishing characteristics...