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The Washington Post leads with the House GOP's partial capitulation on "patient rights" legislation: In the face of more sweeping legislation sponsored by Democrats, the House leadership reversed position and wrote an alternative bill giving patients the right to sue their HMOs.
Since then, as bien-pensant American opinion has embraced the "peace process," Said has bemoaned Arafat's "capitulation" and grown increasingly disgusted with the chairman's dictatorial rule over a few scraps of occupied territory and with Israel's continued expropriation of Palestinian lands.
The consensus political spin from newspapers both and domestic : Milosevic's capitulation vindicates President Clinton's bombing-only strategy.
Hilton Kramer, for instance, called Avedon's 1994 retrospective at the Whitney (which produced a gorgeous book titled Evidence: 1944-1994 ) "the ultimate capitulation to celebrity, money and fashion at the expense of art."
But in most of the British press, as around the world, the main story Monday was Indonesia's capitulation to international pressure by agreeing to allow a foreign peacekeeping force into East Timor.
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