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Since the early stages of the Clinton administration, Republicans have attempted to keep the Whitewater issue simmering to discredit the President. They attempted to bring the issue to a boil a few weeks ago when Hillary Clinton was forced to testify to a grand jury, but their strategy seems to have backfired. Parading into court draped in an embroidered coat, the First Lady appeared almost saintly. The Republican obsession with Whitewater began to look as if it was entirely motivated by partisan concerns...
...wound Forbes, not kill him off. That means Gramm will have to attack Forbes on the air if he hopes to slip past him in the polls. In Dole's dreams, Gramm comes in second in Iowa and Forbes places second in New Hampshire, so it does not boil down to a two-man race too early. Ideally, by the time Forbes' weaknesses have been highlighted, it would be too late for anyone else to replace him as Dole's main rival...
...professor at work, a careful student of power who recognized that if he hoped to change the world, he would need to change the Congress first. His problem was that the House was never intended to be very powerful; the Founding Fathers designed a legislative body that could boil over with parochial passions, only to be cooled by the sober Senate. Senators can filibuster; Presidents can veto. All the Speaker can do is create the appearance of momentum so that the rest of the government will...
...take lunch around 3:30 in the afternoon. I'm sad to say that I don't have time to cook, I can't even eat pasta when I come home late at night...I don't have time to sit there and wait for the water to boil," said McCabe, who said he works six or seven days a week, eleven hours...
...about 7,300 ft., oceanographers have been able to visit and study a dozen of them. The vents are essentially underwater geysers that work much the same way Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful does. Seawater percolates down through cracks in the crust, getting progressively hotter. It doesn't boil, despite temperatures reaching up to 400 degrees C, because it is under terrific pressure. Finally, the hot water gushes back up in murky clouds that cool rapidly, dumping dissolved minerals, including zinc, copper, iron, sulfur compounds and silica, onto the ocean floor. The material hardens into chimneys, known as "black...