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...refused to seek the appointment of a least two, most prominently on issues pertaining to Democratic campaign finances. In each instance, she has been buffeted by hurricane-force political winds. On Wednesday Reno got her chance to do her own huffing and puffing -- and do her best to blow down the whole institution in front of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. A supporter of the statute in 1993, Reno has now changed course, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak...
...Harvard tagged Clark (0-1) for five runs in the first three innings, with Woodfork providing the big blow on a two-run double in the second. Sophomore rightfielder Scott Carmack, whom Walsh said made excellent off-season progress, went 3-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored in the romp, while sophomore leftfielder Joe Llanes, who made the jump from the JV program, was 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored...
...political blow-back of such news could cripple this year's plans for 12 high-level exchange visits between the Pentagon and the People's Liberation Army, including a proposed visit to China by the Marine commandant. Critics point out that China could well use Marine expertise, say, in taking the beaches of Taiwan...
That small blow for equality could provide a final bit of redemption. If King is executed and returned to Jasper, he could spend eternity, alongside Byrd, in a place that his violent act helped make a little more free. As Walter Diggles noted last week, "It's almost like the Lord was saying we needed to let people see the evil that is out there in the country." And, he added sadly but proudly, "he wanted it to happen in a place that could handle...
...women began to elbow their way into the field and develop serious alternatives to the old, male-centered theory of human evolution. It shouldn't matter, of course, what sex the scientist is, but women had their own reasons for being suspicious of the dominant paradigm. The first revisionist blow came in the mid-'70s, when anthropologists Adrienne Zihlman and Nancy Tanner pointed out that among surviving "hunting" peoples, most of the community's calories--up to 70%--come from plant food patiently gathered by women, not meat heroically captured by men. The evidence for Stone Age consumption of plant...