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...plenty of rancorous debate every step of the way. But for congressional Republicans trying to avoid getting scapegoated in 2002 for a president who's safe until 2004 - and for Democrats eagerly trying to do the scapegoating - politics is only as long-term as the average voter's attention span...
...April 6, Obara, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence, was charged with her death: a rape that apparently turned into murder. Police officials, speaking off the record to the Japanese press, suggest he may have raped as many as 200 women over a two-and-a-half decade span, a crime spree to which, TIME has learned, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police had been alerted before Lucie's death...
...Office of the Provost oversaw interfaculty initiatives, for example—one of Rudenstine’s favorite projects, which unified academic interests—like Mind, Brain and Behavior—across the schools. Some still debate the definition of the position, which is young in the span of Harvard history and still evolving...
...Egan took over for the Terrapins and scored a goal and assisted on another in the span of just over a minute to extend Maryland's lead to 9-3 just under ten minutes into the half...
...pianist Chucho Valdes. Valdes is an imposing, giant of a man both in height and in sheer solidity, not to mention musical reputation in the jazz community. His playing is an incomparable mixture of Cuban and North American impulses. Trueba reels in close on his mammoth hands, as they span octaves and meld with the piano's keys in ponderous strokes. Trueba then cuts to a low angle shot down the length of the keyboard as Chucho's hands leap tarantula-like over one another in a frenetic flurry of shaking intensity. His long, hound-dog face remains neutral, almost...