Word: weeks
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...Capitol Hill and ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after...
...none other than Harvard University appears to be following suit - sort of. Last week Harvard posted a paper on the admissions section of its website entitled "Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation." It is less a research study than a doomsday screed. The paper recounts horror story after horror story of stressed-out kids being foisted with consultants to get into elite grammar schools "with lower admission rates than Harvard" and being booked themselves solid with exotic hobbies and activities in order to wow admissions officers. The paper goes on to forecast a generation of thirty...
...landscape yet. They've promised to name their own slate of electors on Wednesday if finality does not arrive to this never-final affair, and they haven't changed their schedule yet. But they may have a few days to play with: State Senate leader John McKay insisted this week that his experts had told him the 16th, not the 12th, was the true brick wall for the naming of Florida's electors. But today Republican state senator Daniel Webster pegged Wednesday again: If there is no finality, he said, we will bring finality on the 13th...
...Israeli and Palestinian minds Friday as the West Bank exploded in a frenzy of violence that claimed seven Palestinian and three Israeli lives. And as both sides went into the weekend vowing to avenge their dead, the Israelis restored the siege of Palestinian areas that a European mediator this week warned could ultimately plunge the region into...
...Arafat may have started the week brandishing a machine pistol as a theatrical form of identifying himself with the "struggle," but many Palestinian militiamen are reportedly under no illusion that when he decides to return to the negotiating table, they'll be blacklisted by the Palestinian Authority. And, of course, the PA's record of corruption makes many ordinary Palestinians skeptical about how much of the aid currently being promised by the West and the Arab world will ever reach the Palestinian street...