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...figure was absent from that photo op. Margaret Reeb spent the summers of her girlhood on Henderson's slopes, where her father supervised a mine. Her family has owned claims in the district for over a century. "It was gold seekers who settled the West," she notes crisply. "They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically...
Clinton's centrist agenda has added to the financial strain by creating at least a temporary rift between the D.N.C. and some of its most reliable friends. Conspicuously absent from the contributors to the gala was the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which spent lavishly on Clinton's re-election. Public employees know their jobs are on the line in any battle to cut spending...
...year reign by flying not south to Kinshasa but north to France. "Even if Mobutu does fly to France, he will almost certainly still be vowing to return to Zaire," says TIME's Peter Graff from Nairobi. Western diplomats are hoping he stays away. "With Mobutu absent, (US envoy) Bill Richardson's 'soft landing' will be much easier to negotiate," says Graff. "The remnants of the Mobutuist military would agree to lay down their arms and the rebels would enter the capital in peace." As fighting continues near Kenge, east of the capital, Graff says rebel leader Laurent Kabila himself...
...more substantively, the need for more women at Harvard is, in Schmertzler's words, "crucially important ...because students are getting an inadequate education." The reasons for this shortcoming are: female professors serve as role models and mentors for female students; they offer points of view that are absent in an all-male faculty or all-male departments; and as Schmertzler puts it, "both men and women need to see women in positions of the highest leadership because they need to be ready to live in an equal society...
...grew up in Pendleton, a small town in upstate New York. His father was employed by a company that made radiators; his mother was a travel agent. According to All-American Monster, a biography of McVeigh by a local newspaper reporter named Brandon Stickney, McVeigh's parents were often absent--his father worked nights and his mother led an active social life in the bars and bowling alleys of the area. When McVeigh was 18, his parents divorced and his mother moved to Florida. High school records obtained by TIME indicate that McVeigh was a bright student, and according...