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What is happening overseas is still not what you would call pretty. Many Asian economies will be slumping throughout next year, though more slowly than in 1998. Once a general upturn begins, perhaps in 2000, it will take years for those countries to regain the prosperity of 1996. And there are still pitfalls that may take intricate maneuvering to avoid...
White House aides worked overtime in a hastily assembled war room on the first floor of the West Wing, where business lobbyists were asked to call lawmakers and donors were urged to phone wavering Republicans. Intermediaries issued invitations to come over and meet the President when he returns from the Middle East on Tuesday. Around the nation, state Democratic parties organized phone-a-thons on behalf of the President in districts held by moderate Republicans. Appeals went out over the Internet, and Working Assets, the long-distance company that uses a portion of its proceeds to fund liberal causes...
...living in California and I found it pretty hard to go through," Fuqua says. She says she woke up at 7 a.m. every morning to call for several weeks trying to find an apartment with no success...
Preemptive strikes don't just come against Middle Eastern countries. Thursday it came from the House, where the Hill newsletter Roll Call reports that House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston (R-La.) told the Republican leadership that he has had extramarital affairs in the past and offered to resign his post. The leadership did not accept. "I have decided to inform my colleagues and constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie, I have on occasion strayed from my marriage and doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family," Livingston told Roll Call. He went...
Yesterday's rally is the latest in a series of on-campus anti-sweatshop protests. In October, PSLM rallied for full disclosure. In April, more than 100 students gathered to call attention to sweatshop conditions in factories manufacturing Harvard insignia clothing...