Word: america
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Though Harvard was not offered a place in the experimental program, up to 50 schools may participate with Access America for Students pending the results of the initial trials...
...generation and a half ago in America, the moment at which most people decided to marry often roughly coincided with their finishing college. Today, the same overlap--between the uncertainty of facing life after school and the reassurance of doing it with a spouse--applies only to a small minority...
WASHINGTON: You wouldn't have thought Newt Gingrich was going anywhere. The cries of "Newt, Newt, Newt," the standing ovations, the laminated copy of the Contract With America ?- all accompanied the outgoing speaker Monday night as he addressed his old buddies at GOPAC. It was trademark Gingrich -- calls for tax cuts, vilification of trial lawyers (who are responsible for exacerbating Y2K misery, we were told) and wild new ideas such as giving everyone their own Social Security investment account. The only sign that something had changed came when the outgoing Speaker endorsed, praised and bear-hugged his successor, Bob Livingston...
WASHINGTON: For the outside world, impeachment is a non-issue -? yawned out of existence in last week?s election by voters with a laundry list of more important concerns. But for the House Judiciary Committee, it?s still the most pressing matter in America -? as Monday?s strange parade of legal scholars and historians bore witness to. And what did luminaries such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Watergate veteran Rev. Robert Drinan largely agree on? That you can?t, or shouldn?t, censure the President. It?s impeachment or nothing. And that puts the rabidly pro-impeachment GOP majority...
...years ago. This is highly ironic, since Rodino himself has recently declared that President Clinton?s actions do not meet the criteria of high crimes and misdemeanors. Republican disgust and frustration was everywhere. South Carolina firebrand Bob Inglis accused his guest Schlesinger ?- perhaps the most respected historian in America ?- of having "a great deal of sophistication but very little common sense." Cold comfort for committee chair Henry Hyde, then, that Monday?s Supreme Court ruling would allow him to call Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey. Hyde said he despaired for "the rule of law". It was a comment on Slick Willie...