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...handled in family court, sources say his top advisers--primarily Coelho, but with backing from message gurus Carter Eskew and Bob Shrum--urged him to take a higher profile by calling for permanent residency for the Cuban boy. Coelho was out front in arguing that the move would bolster Gore's chances of carrying Florida--the nation's fourth most populous state--and proving he was no retroliberal on foreign policy. Instead, the Coelho-led gambit was almost universally dismissed as pandering gone terribly wrong. Behind the scenes in Goreland, it was derided as more evidence of how campaign decision...
...free the hostages in Sierra Leone. Although the Blue Helmets are empowered to use lethal force to protect themselves, they are not there to go to war. Annan begged a host of African leaders to intercede with Sankoh and called for the deployment of a rapid-reaction force to bolster the 8,400 U.N. troops already there. None of the countries capable of sending one were willing; Britain and the U.S. ruled out their own forces. The mercurial rebel chief variously denied that his men were holding anyone, suggested the U.N. soldiers "may have got lost in the bush...
...Harvard women's tennis team lost its final Ivy League match of the season to Dartmouth at Leverone Field House, 6-3. By losing to the Big Green, the Crimson (11-11, 5-2 Ivy) failed to bolster its bid for a berth in the NCAA tournament, to be held in Malibu, California in late...
...bolster their argument, the Adonis authors developed a computerized test that allows subjects to "add" muscle to a typical male body. They estimate their own size and then pick the size they would like to be and the size they think women want. Pope and his colleagues gave the test to college students and found that on average, the men wanted 28 lbs. more muscle--and thought women wanted them to have 30 lbs. more. In fact, the women who took the test picked an ideal man only slightly more muscular than average. Which goes a long way toward explaining...
...smell the burning rubber? Savor it - it's the scent of the speeding U.S. economy squealing to a much-needed slowdown. As if to bolster the prevailing psychology of caution, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday that housing starts on multi-unit buildings, a key indicator, were down to a six-year low in March, a decidedly large drop from December's record high. Simply put, the plunge in starts means that fewer builders are breaking ground on apartment and condominium complexes...