Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...weekend wasn't an entire loss for President Clinton. Sure, he didn't get Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to agree to modifications in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that would allow the U.S. to build its Son of Star Wars missile defense system in Alaska. But nobody really expected that. There's little incentive for Putin to sign off on a deal that could throw his country into a new arms race at a time when Russia definitely needs more butter and fewer guns. And time is on the Russian side - Clinton would like...
...appears to be an inevitable defeat for the Miami relatives and their supporters, the political battlefield has gone quiet. The attention of the American public and its elected representatives has moved on, with two thirds of the electorate having consistently favored Juan Miguel Gonzalez's right to take his son home and once-angry legislators having quietly allowed plans for a congressional inquiry into the Easter Saturday raid on the Little Havana home to drift off into the ether. The story that had supplanted the death of Princess Diana and stood second only to the O. J. Simpson trial...
...shadows of the Alomar-Hirschbeck saga. The season after the spitting incident, Alomar sought Hirschbeck out during a game, shook his hand and apologized. In the years since, Alomar has become a leading benefactor of the charity Hirschbeck established to research adrenoleukodystrophy, the brain disease inherited by his two sons. The player and ump now consider one another friends. During a game May 20, reporters spotted Alomar hugging 13-year-old Indians batboy Michael Hirschbeck, John's son, in the Indians dugout...
...arranged a meeting between Kirchner and Mrs. Jones. Later I heard from Kirchner's son, who described driving to the reunion with his dad and his own son. By chance they passed the country cemetery where Sergeant Jones was buried beneath a prominent headstone. They stopped, and Gregory Kirchner made his way to the burial site of his old comrade-in-arms. His son described the scene: "My father uses a walker to get around and does well with it. As we stood silently at the grave my father's knees buckled, and we had to help him stand...
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