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Most visibly, in accord with his and Driskell's campaign platform, he has sponsored legislation to put feedback cards in dining halls and to administer a campus-wide questionnaire--Harvard Census 2000. The council voted to approve both bills...
Rather than uncorking champagne bottles because of the Russian Duma's long-delayed ratification last week of the Start II treaty, Bill Clinton faces a debacle in the U.S. Senate over the accord. Reason: the Duma didn't only ratify the 1993 treaty, requiring each side to halve its strategic nuclear warheads, to 3,000 to 3,500, by the end of 2007; it also ratified a series of 1997 side agreements Washington negotiated with Moscow. They update the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty and limit any extra interceptor weapons the U.S. wants to deploy to shorter-range models that wouldn...
...trade systems is in dire need of overhaul - has plenty of adherents on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill. But while everyone from President Clinton and World Bank chairman James Wolfenson to Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader may agree on the need for change, there's little accord on what should be changed...
...euphoria stemming from the recent Smith & Wesson gun control accord has been doused with a cold shower of reality. Thursday, the gunmaker, which broke ranks with fellow manufacturers to strike a gun safety deal with the federal government, issued a "clarification" of the terms of their agreement, essentially removing the teeth from the groundbreaking deal. While government officials maintain that Smith & Wesson agreed to several initiatives, including restricting sales of the company's products to dealers who followed stringent background check and safety procedures, the company disagrees with that interpretation, dismissing the government's claims...
...must have been hell for Bill Bradley. Al Gore was agreeing with him again. Every time Bradley opened his mouth at the Democratic debate in Los Angeles last week, Gore seemed in full accord. "I agree with that statement," he said at one point. "I think it was a very fine statement." Ouch. For months Gore had been treating Bradley's ideas the way a cleaver treats meat. But now that Bradley's campaign resembled ground chuck, the Vice President was showering him with roses--a spectacle that's likely to continue this week, if Gore finishes off Bradley...