HEALTH CARE . . . LIMBO TILL LABOR DAY

Like the House before it, the Senate has put health-care reform on hold until early September -- a move that will probably shoehorn any effort at legislation this year into the nine-week slot between Labor and Election days. After wearing themselves out on the crime-bill fight, Senators pressured majority leader George Mitchell to scrap his vow to hold up vacations until they crafted a compromise package.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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