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Colin L. Powell could have done just about anything after he retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: head a think tank, sign on as CEO of a big corporation, some say even run for President of the U.S. What he chose to do instead was to help children become happy, productive citizens. By creating America's Promise--the Alliance for Youth, Powell launched a national movement that has historically competitive organizations in the nonprofit sector collaborating for the first time on hundreds of programs...
...Freed of the ambition for higher office, Udall became a particularly effective chairman of the House Interior Committee, a position he held from 1976 until he left Congress. In a real sense, he is also responsible for much of the face of modern Arizona. He shepherded through Congress the massive Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts from the Colorado River that provided the water that grew Tucson and Phoenix into the megalopolises they are today...
...released 250 Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Authority has opened its airport in Gaza, and Israeli troops have begun to withdraw from selected areas of the West Bank. While it is true that Prime Minister Netanyahu has threatened a halt to additional withdrawals, he has done so in response to Chairman Arafat's promise to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state in May 1999 (before the conclusion of the delicate final status peace talks), in direct violation of the Wye Agreement...
...frenzied stock exchanges drove the price of diversified firms higher than that of the separated parts--the opposite of what happens today. "Investors came to overvalue growth by acquisition," says Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citibank. "That was because of this idea that a good manager could make two plus two equal five...
WASHINGTON: Henry Hyde sounded positively bored Monday as he steeled himself for two 15-hour days of the presidential defense. The Judiciary Committee chairman wearily demanded a little more than "sound and fury" from Bill Clinton's lawyers on Tuesday and Wednesday, and he's likely to be disappointed. But it's not Henry Hyde -- or the rest of his committee -- that the president's attorneys, Charles Ruff and Greg Craig, are trying to convince. "Judiciary members are far beyond being swayed at this point," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "Clinton's lawyers are playing to the House...