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...White House travel-office workers. While Waxman promises what he calls oversight, the Republicans say it'll be more like a witch hunt, and the Administration is promising to fight him all the way to the Supreme Court to protect itself against what it expects to be a frontal assault on Executive power. Waxman says the G.O.P. should take comfort in the fact that he has historical perspective. "I've seen a good example of overreaching," he says, referring to the committee's treatment of Clinton. "It's not the way to behave...
...good sign that it will work against the avian variety too. It's the common strains, of course, that ought to cause us concern, since avian flu has yet to kill anybody in the U.S. and the common flu kills 36,000 each year. Girding for this winter's assault, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new vaccine against several flu strains likely to cause infections in North America, bringing to five the number of vaccines in this season's anti-influenza arsenal...
...Each militant cell has a high degree of operational autonomy: its leader decides when, where and whom to attack. That assault will likely be brutal. In October a 3-year-old girl died of bullet wounds from a drive-by shooting that killed both her parents, while five Buddhist monks were injured by a bomb planted on their morning alms route; in July a primary school teacher was shot dead in front of his pupils. While Buddhist police and soldiers are still the prime targets, these days the militants are killing just as many Muslim civilians. Anyone who joins...
...their rocket fire. For Palestinians and Israelis, the truce offered a respite from a brutal and inconclusive mess in Gaza. In last week?s offensive, over 30 tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli forces used aircraft to fire missiles killing suspected Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house of a militant commander who was the intended target of Israeli air strikes. Faced with the prospect of killing so many Palestinian civilians, the Israeli planes veered away. At one Israeli checkpoint, a Palestinian grandmother belted with explosives blew herself...
...acronym SASH refers to the Sexual Assault, Sexual Harrassment advisers, a group of tutors in each undergraduate House who serve as "first responders" to students with concerns about relationship abuse and other matters. The Nov. 22 article "Students Offended at Rap Song's Lyrics," which reported on a SASH-sponsored discussion in Eliot House about sexually explicit lyrics in a Yale rap group's song, missated SASH's full name...