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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A flurry of high-level calls from Clinton Administration officials brought Greece and Turkey back from the brink of war over a pile of rocks in the eastern Aegean Sea late Tuesday. The Turkish military was prepared to attack the disputed ten-acre island on which seven Greek coast guardsmen had raised the Greek flag. "If the United States hadn't intervened, the Turks would have seized the island," said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Bosnian peace last fall and negotiated the terms of this withdrawal in a flurry of late night phone calls...
...past crises, Clinton rose to the beleagured occasion with an easy blend of humor and toughness, smoothly batting away questions about Travelgate, tax cuts and his mounting legal problems. Asked about a Money Magazine report that his more than $2 million in legal bills have driven him to the brink of bankruptcy, Clinton conceded, "That's probably right. I haven't added it all up, but it's probably right." Pressed to explain why Hillary Clinton is the most controversial First Lady in modern politics -- on a day when a Senate committee was grilling one of her former Little Rock...
Only someone with particular tenacity would remain a communist in Russia throughout the 1990s and then manage to maneuver the party back to the brink of power. The son of village schoolteachers in southwestern Russia, Zyuganov began his career as a full-time party worker in 1967. He was serving as a deputy chief of the ideology department of the Soviet Central Committee in 1990 when he helped found a separate Russian Communist Party. It was created to oppose the reformist course of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Mikhail Gorbachev. Zyuganov proudly says he served...
Best of all, new program ideas are being generated daily, overseen by an ad hoc committee on safety that includes students and administrators. Safetywalk has been rejuvenated from the brink and is embarking on another publicity campaign. A runner's alliance is being formed. Following the programs in each of the houses, first-year outreaches are being planned. The group is pushing for a re-emphasis on safety and harassment issues to be included in the freshman week programs...
Forbes, President and CEO of Forbes Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, depicted an America on the brink of unprecedented economic strength and social reform to the audience of approximately...