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...however, the new GOP majority implemented a six-year term limit for committee chairmen. And what seemed like a good idea six long years ago is raising ire among some senior party members. Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, only grudgingly departed as chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and moved to the head of the foreign relations panel. Hyde argued unsuccessfully that he should remain in his leadership position to make up for time he missed during President Clinton's impeachment trial...
Point one--with a six-year capital campaign, Rudenstine has been limited in the amount of time he can spend with student. But his successor doesn't have to be. Every candidate wants a University president who is in touch with student concerns...
After suffering a six-year drought since its last Ivy title, Brown is poised to make a run at the league championship again this season. The Bears will rely heavily on sophomore guard Barbara Maloni, who averaged more than 20 points per game last season and was named second-team All-Ivy for her offensive prowess...
With their six-year head start, the Kecks have done more science than the newer telescopes, but the newcomers haven't wasted any time catching up. The European Southern Observatory's VLT, for example, built and operated by a consortium of eight countries, got the first of its four 8.2-m telescopes up and running in 1998 and achieved "first light" with the fourth in September...
...election postmortems cool off, it's time for Hillary to get to work. What was her first task? Disavowing those rampant White House rumors. And while Clinton has made it (ahem) very clear that even if Al Gore loses Florida, she will not seek the presidency during her first six-year term in Congress, few Washington insiders doubt she's got her eyes firmly fixed on the White House. It's just a matter of time, most agree...