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...Armenian lobby is wilfully misrepresenting history. The version taught in Turkish schools is that Armenians allowed themselves to be caught up in Great Power politics in an attempt to create their own state during World War I. Pro-Turkish historians dispute that 1.5 million Armenians died, but even they admit that between 300,00 and 600,000 perished. However Turks also died as the result of Armenian atrocities committed behind the lines of the advancing Russian army...
...wanted to put the matter behind him. He agreed to participate in the first negotiation of criminal matters between a President and a prosecutor. Kendall set up the meeting and joined the discussion. Clinton agreed to acknowledge some form of wrongdoing; the issue was what. Ray wanted him to admit that he had lied under oath when he denied having had sexual relations with Lewinsky; at the meeting, Clinton wouldn't budge. The lawyers worked on language over the next two weeks, arriving at a formula in which Clinton admitted for the first time to giving false testimony under oath...
...crowds and all the hoopla and the metal detectors and the legions of tense security forces. It was the complexity of all the loci of power represented on the podium. It seemed impossible that anyone's ear could be tuned to so much dissonance, much less, I have to admit, someone you were used to seeing at the parent-teacher night at the local high school...
...Washington, everyone is debating whether all this is very funny or not funny at all. Gore staff members are happy to characterize their actions as "pranks," and while most freely admit they behaved childishly, no one seems especially remorseful. Bush staffers, on the other hand, are calling the transgressions "vandalism," and Thursday, the Bush administration announced they were "cataloguing" the damage they've discovered since the first...
Michigan's current point-based system was instituted to replace its previous two-tiered grid system, which was struck down by the courts in 1998. Rather than admit minority students under criteria separate from the one used for non-minorities--effectively reserving seats for minority applicants--a point-based system acknowledges that race is one of a number of factors to be considered in admissions decisions...