Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professors at any Ivy League school and you'll see that we're not even the only ones who institutionalized it. But railing against the "craven degenerates" who owned slaves 130 years ago will not change our problems now. We must stop taking pot-shots at historical targets and begin to examine more deeply the roots of our problems. Only then will we be able to solve them. Blaming Bubba won't change a thing. --Lisa Nosal '98 Roswell, Georgia
...press secretary, Lisa Caputo, and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos. By late June, having received no definitive answer from the White House, I broached the possibility that I didn't feel comfortable with the notion that I needed the Clintons' permission to undertake this work, and might well begin it on my own. As I had told Mrs. Clinton, I was drawn to the story as much for what it would say about our culture, values and political processes as for what it would reveal about the President and his wife...
Last week leaders of Hamas' political wing publicly asked their military cohort to suspend their attacks. The political leaders were apparently worried that Arafat would begin shutting down the many institutions of Hamas--schools, clinics, mosques, charities--that anchor it deeply in the Palestinian community. In a leaflet, the military wing purportedly acceded. Ghazi, however, insists the document was a fraud. "I tell you frankly and clearly, there is no truce," he says. "We will continue...
With these abysmal odds, a man clearly needs every last sperm cell he's got. Any fewer than 20 million or so per ml of semen--40 million to 120 million in a typical ejaculation--and his chances of fathering a child begin to plummet. That's why doctors are so concerned about a trend they have noticed over the past few years. In study after study, sperm counts in men the world over seem to be dropping precipitously...
TAIPEI: Taiwanese troops have reportedly taken up positions on outlying islands to defend against a possible beach assault as China prepares to begin another round of war games. The China Times reported today that preparations are being made on the Chu islands as China is expected to take advantage of Monday's high tide to practice beach landings on nearby Pingtan Island. About 300 people, more than half the population of the islands, and hundreds of fishing boats have fled the area. Because of bad weather, the eight- day exercises will be smaller in scale than the live-fire...