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...campus is abuzz with speculation that the New York Governor, who opted last year not to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, will announce in next week's speech that he has changed his mind and decided to enter the campaign...
...societies agree on one important thing. Fifty years after the Pacific war's outbreak, they wonder whether they are on some critical new collision course. A broad range of Americans, knowledgeable and temperate ones at that, see Japan as insensitive and arrogant. Washington is abuzz these days not about Japanese car sales and real estate purchases in the U.S., but about what is seen as a budding growth market in Japan for blatantly anti-American screeds...
...diplomats are abuzz about Saudi Ambassador Samir Shihabi's election as president of the General Assembly. The largely ceremonial post was expected to rotate to an Asian candidate. Where, then, did Shihabi get the fire in the belly? And how did he win so handily? Some officials believe the Saudis launched their candidate in response to a challenge from the delegate from Yemen, who had occasionally supported Saddam Hussein in the Security Council. U.N. sources also suggest that Shihabi's victory was cemented with some well- placed promises to a few impoverished countries. He was evidently so confident of winning...
...there is no better beach in Maine than in Ogunquit, just a half-hour from the New Hampshire border. The whole town is abuzz with Canadian tourists in the summer, and French is almost required to communicate...
Well past midnight early Tuesday morning, undergrads packed the grills and tuned up their portable TV sets for a popular culture confrontation that set Harvard abuzz. Pop princess Madonna faced off against Nightline's Forrest Sawyer in defense of her recent, racy video "Justify My Love...