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This year promises a string of new battles over globalism, whether in the form of expanding NATO, staying in Bosnia or bailing out Asian markets. Already it appears that Clinton will have to abandon his promise to revisit the trade issue this spring if he is to have any hope of winning on the more pressing question of new funding for the International Monetary Fund to stabilize Asia. In the interview, Clinton said he has not made a "final decision" on whether winning one means losing the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Last Campaign | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...than do the more character-driven scenes. The most exciting of these occurs when DiCaprio is handcuffed in the bowels of the flooding ship and Winslet must save him. For a film that depends so greatly on cliches, this is a surprisingly effective role reversal, for Winslet does not abandon her femininity to make this switch...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pretty Faces, Money Do Not a Great Film Make | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

SACRAMENTO: An intransigent Theodore Kaczynski has forced his defense team to abandon plans to call mental health experts to testify during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, according to court papers filed late Monday. The move means that reams of pre-trial documents asserting that the Unabomber suspect is schizophrenic, and unable to form the intent to kill anyone, have been set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Trial is it Anyway? | 12/30/1997 | See Source »

Kaczynski Gets His Way Theodore Kaczynski has forced his lawyers to abandon attempts to show that the Unabomber-accused suffers from a mental defect. How will the defense argue the case? Full Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 12/30/1997 | See Source »

Mayer also says students are only questioned when they take large amounts of food to go, not a bagel or a banana. But the evidence in Annenberg seems to suggest otherwise. We urge the Annenberg staff to abandon its heightened militancy and follow the lead of the houses, where, thankfully, the policy goes largely unenforced, and the dining atmosphere is not antagonistic but civil. We also urge Harvard Dining Services to provide paper bags and containers so that students will have the flexibility to eat on the run. Given the almost nonexistent flexibility of the current meal plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can Take It With You | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

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