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...King and Margaret Court; Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert; Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. And young, talented players, overwhelmed by the pressures of success, have often alienated their tour mates. But in the past, there was room for just two great rivals at a time. "Now," says Butch Buchholz, chairman of the Lipton and Pilot Pen tournaments, "we have a handful of names that sell tickets, which makes the appeal wider and the product just better...
...G.O.P. Congressman Bob Barr, a committed Clinton opponent who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, mocked the President's act of contrition. "It was all a charade," Barr insisted. "The lip biting and the hangdog look were all part of an act." A better barometer was Illinois' Henry Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, where impeachments originate. Hyde said that until Starr turns over a report to Congress, "we simply should not speculate about how the House would proceed." Implied in his words is the expectation that Starr will eventually issue a report, which by definition would include evidence...
Need some cheap advice from a market expert? Judging by the just disclosed portfolio of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, short-term T bills are the way to go. Though Greenspan's choices reflect his desire to "avoid any conflicts of interest" and "have nothing to do with the market," it's no surprise that the notorious skeptic would invest in bonds. Caution, though, doesn't come cheap; in 1997 one-year T bills had a 6.2% return, while the S&P 500 rose...
...hard to determine the reasons--other than revenge--for sentencing Mitchell and Drew to several years of this. "Punishment won't do anything," says Alan Kazdin, chairman of Yale's psychology department. "Punishment never teaches what to do, [and only] sometimes what not to do." Some very young kids don't even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these...
...insisted for several weeks now that only a clear-cut case of obstruction of justice would compel them to start an impeachment inquiry. "We're not going to let the Republican Party go down in flames over a sex charge," said an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee...