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...their initial silence can be explained easily. The prisoners all wanted to arrive at a consensus but were jailed in various prisons across the country and found it difficult to do so. The conditional offer carried some restrictions on their freedom and needed to be considered carefully. To chalk up the delay in the decision to a reluctance to renounce violence is an over-simplification of the matter...
...Chalk up another victim of dot-com mania: wanna-be doctors. For the second straight year, applications to U.S. medical schools are down, a 4.7 percent drop from 1997 to 1998. That makes a 12 percent decline in since 1996, when applications were at an all-time high. The diagnosis? A strong economy gives bright students a wider range of options and less of a perceived need to seek out a "safe" profession (medical schools experienced similar fluctuations in the late '70s and early '80s during flush economic periods). Add to that the fact that some doctors report less-than...
...have traditionally raised more soft money, but in 1996, Clinton demonstrated that Democrats could raise the big money too, and now it?s an all-out competition to win the House in 2000." When the returns roll in, on that Tuesday night still 15 months away, the pundits will chalk victory up to the issues. The winners will play along. Democrats, if they retake their old stronghold, will declare that America is tired of guns and elitist tax cuts and overarching HMOs. The Republicans, if they hang on, will claim a mandate to refund Americans their money and reclaim...
ALAN GREENSPAN Gets an A++ from Gore; set to keep his post in 2000. Chalk one up for inscrutability...
...rock, chalk, oatmeal, twig, sand, deep sand, flax, parchment, stone, putty, buff, dove, raffia...