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Scrapbook A New Welfare Strategy With congressional Republicans unsure if they will ever be able to declare a clear victory over the White House in the budget battle, they're now hoping to use...
...The thinking among many Republicans is that if the White House supports the bill, the GOP will gain credit for overhauling one of the nation's least popular programs...
...I think a school like this is based on revolutionary thinking...
...In the plot description of Wuthering Heights, we said that "Cathy and Heathcliff meet again only as ghosts on the moors...
...It seems that a committee has to meet in order to decide who deserves protection and when that protection should start...
...How a senator's rising star is quashed because he can't keep his hands off the beautiful title character...
...In honor of this week's cover, we feature a few works about political ambition: Medea, by Aeschylus...
...So we thought, 'Let's ask Castro,'" the Benetton rep told Lingua Franca magazine...
...Nobody could actually think Castro is right for this job-unless you want to torture and jail a few thousand students for expressing an independent thought or two...
...As evidenced in Simpson's hour-long interview with BET the other week, he is free to maul the English language as well...
...But House and Senate Republican leaders remain undecided, and some congressional conservatives feel the Senate bill is not tough enough on work and illegitimacy...
...Who said being majority leader would hurt Dole's campaign...
...On February 1, the House Republican freshmen agreed that the House should pass the Senate welfare bill, which Clinton has praised and which passed the Senate 87-12 in September...
...We're Guilty of Prejudism Now we know why O.J...
...This high political drama features the greatest portrait of back-door ambition in literature: the character of Cassius, with the "lean and hungry" look, who manages to stir up Brutus into assassination by bemoaning the inability of anyone but Caesar to cast a shadow in Rome-perhaps because he does not have the guts to kill the emperor himself...
...And if Clinton signs, that might also "disintegrate his base in the Democratic party," says Republican Rep...
...Now comes evidence of their calculation and cynicism...
...The rumor du jour is that the meeting will finally take place next week where, of course, the senator will graciously excuse himself from the decision...
...Fidel Castro...
...Wrong...
...never took the stand...
...Jennie Gerhardt, by Theodore Dreiser...
...Jimmy Hayes (who speaks from experience, having been a Democrat until switching parties two months ago...
...The bigger political gain could come from a presidential veto, which Republicans say would undermine Clinton's claim that the "the era of big government is over" and remind voters who the president really is...
...Benetton has launched an art school called Fabrica...
...Julius Caesar, by Shakespeare...
...United Colors of Bull It has always been difficult to determine if the people at United Colors of Benetton are incredibly naive or incredibly cynical...
...Dole's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee have been lobbying against any new moves on welfare, preferring to use the two previous vetoes as an issue against Clinton...
...In the January 29 Reading List, you were asked to uncover an error in a list of books featuring ghosts (in honor of Hillary Clinton's unindicted co-author of It Takes a Village...
...That's from the 1939 movie version, featuring an absurd happy ending with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon walking around together after death-and you could see right through them...
...it's because Jason, whose consort she has become, decides to make a strategic marriage with Creusa to enhance his own political ambitions...
...And so Medea takes her revenge...
...It seems Ron and Nicole weren't his only victims...
...This committee has not yet convened because of the very busy schedule of one of the six members-Majority Leader Bob Dole...
...The senator doesn't really need the help since he has the biggest staff and doesn't need to do as many events as, say, Dick Lugar-and he can't mind that the absence of the Secret Service is costing his rivals money they might spend on negative ads against him...
...Do they think they are making brave statements with their advertisements-gays wearing tattoos, black men in chains, a company director standing naked to protest NATO inaction over Bosnia-or do they just want to make a splash...
...But then, the Benetton people aren't the first to sell their souls for the sake of a few publicity stunts...
...A partial guide: Malapropisms Nearest resemblance to actual English Negatism Negativism Prejudism Prejudice Akyoolades Accolades Bone to Ax "Bone to pick" or "Ax to grind" In the Line of Campaigning Many second-tier GOP presidential campaigns have been waiting desperately for the United States Secret Service to ride to their rescue-not for protection for their candidate, but because the Secret Service actually helps pay for campaign charter planes...
...The campaigns were hoping that the Secret Service would come on board no later than January 15...
...People forget just why Medea ends up killing her own sons...
...But there won't be a sign of them until after the Iowa caucuses...
...Scrapbook A New Welfare Strategy With congressional Republicans unsure if they will ever be able to declare a clear victory over the White House in the budget battle, they're now hoping to use welfare reform as a means of highlighting President Clinton's govern-left, run-right strategy...
...And who did they ask to run it...
...Sheila Burke, chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and a highly influential voice in welfare policy, remains undecided...
...The Reading List So sorry, but the big contest is over, and nobody won...
Vol. 1 • February 1996 • No. 21
