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The WP , NYT , and LAT fronts report on China's handing down of stiff prison sentences--11 to 13 years--to dissidents who'd been trying to start China's first democratic opposition party.
On one significant issue, the line-item veto, they held firm on an old stance even though doing so meant handing a Democratic president a knife to gore Republican oxen (though they did postpone the day as long as possible and are now contending that Clinton's conception of it is too broad).
This was back when you still had to justify your pop taste to your parents, before they started lighting up and handing you joints.
Asked what Bradley thinks now of welfare reform, his press secretary, Eric Hauser, said "that it had some fundamental flaws in terms of the federal government simply handing money over to the states" and that Bradley continues to harbor "some doubts about its long-term viability."
USA Today goes with Bill Gates' announcement that, while remaining chairman of Microsoft, he's handing over CEO duties to long-time associate Steve Ballmer.