A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Blessed Insurance
In hist last hours as a senator, Bob Dole cut a deal in hopes of saving a health-reform bill that provides insurance portability for job hoppers (which is likely to raise the cost of insurance) and a compromise provision of tax-free medical savings accou
Hearer of the word
Clinton gets good advice, but he's a doer of different policies
Beijing's little sister
Follow-up U.N.
Civility or compromise?
The full text of Dole's declaration on the pro-life platform Aides to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole labored for 10 weeks to pitch the big-tent abortion compromise unveiled June 6; in less than 10 days, however, Mr.
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Music
Music: A view from the top
Just before Christmas, Rush Limbaugh devoted a segment of his radio show to a discussion of "One of Us," a song by Joan Osborne that over the next few months went on to turn the grammatically ambi...
Books
Beltway Books: Tackling taboos
For all of the hue and cry this election season, one issue has remained largely unmentioned: federal entitlement spending. Only Steve Forbes was willing to touch the so-called third rail of Americ...
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This Week
Court docket A provision of a new communications law enacted in February and aimed at regulating "indecent" American content on the World Wide Web was struck down by a federal district cour...
Quotables
Quotables
Vivid and painful memories. President BILL CLINTON on his June 8 radio address, in discussing the current rash of suspected black church arsons, recalled "black churches being burned in my ...