Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Coelho was reported to be weary of what one source close to the campaign "backbiting" and rumors. But his health was the most imminent concern. Coelho began experiencing abdominal pain late last week, and was admitted to the hospital on Monday, where he has remained. According to campaign sources he has an inflamed colon and is on a liquid diet...
Bill Richardson was ready for his close-up. Until he was beset by the double woes of Wen Ho Lee and rising gas prices, the energy secretary was a political and media darling. He was the consummate politico, working the press to his advantage and apparently headed on a one-way trip to the top of the Democratic party. That was then, of course. Thanks to a series of security lapses at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory - capped by this week's revelation that vital hard drives are missing from the lab's inner sanctum - and his struggle to stabilize...
...same text she is "reading" is visible on the other side) and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the Fame kids. Even such old pros as Nathan Lane and Timothy Spall are made to perform their face-contorting comedy so close to the camera that mugging becomes assault...
...article "School for Hackers" [TECHNOLOGY, May 22], you referred to Manila's AMA Computer College as "a pioneer in Philippine computer education." That's not even close to the truth. Also, the AMA student alleged to be the mastermind behind the Love Bug computer virus is not a talented hacker and certainly not world class. The code could have been written by any computer- and Internet-savvy 14-year-old. Emphatically, we in the Philippines are not proud of what this hacker has done. MARICRIS GO Quezon City, the Philippines...
...Cleveland," by H. Paul Jeffers, and from Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s "Presidential Campaigns"). Cleveland was accused of draft-dodging during the Civil War. Blaine got identified with the line about "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," which backfired and hurt him badly among the urban Catholics he needed in the close race. As historian Horace Samuel Merrill wrote: "The depiction of Blaine as an unrestrained public plunderer and Cleveland as town drunk and debaucher was just a part of the material used to fill the vacuum of a campaign devoid of issues." In the end, Grover Cleveland turned...