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...administration's F.D.R.-like insistence on a computer in every classroom (and the $500 million next year so allotted) reduces the overall productive capital that might otherwise aid poor schools buy the very desks on which the hypothetical computer technology is supposed to sit. Likewise, the doubled funding of charter schools does little to help sustain ordinary students in the decaying public school system...
...historically inaccurate and totally distasteful" criticism that the measures being taken against Scientologists are reminiscent of Nazi treatment of the Jews. Stopping next in Paris, Albright, speaking partially in French, delivered a eulogy for late American Ambassador Pamela Harriman before chewing over a French proposal for a special NATO charter with Russia. The Albright Express steams ahead to NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday for more talks on Russia, and moves on to London on Wednesday for more consensus-building. Next stop: Moscow...
...months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo op. On the table: the impending eastward expansion of NATO and Russia's finances. "The top issue on the agenda will be negotiations on a charter -- Russia wants to call it a treaty -- to regulate the relations between NATO and Russia," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "The Russians are against the expansion in principle, but they are willing to discuss it. The U.S. hasn't given the issue much urgency, but now the European allies...
...isolated. Too white. Too old. "Coaches used to threaten us," says White. "Shape up, or we're shipping you to Green Bay." Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit of the people who shovel the snow out of the stadium for free...
...Knesset could ratify it by Thursday. Israel would then have ten days to execute the redeployment from Hebron. Under eleventh-hour negotiation is the language of a series of "notes for the record," which codify each side's remaining obligations on issues ranging from changes to the PLO charter to the opening of a "safe passage" between the West Bank and Gaza. Still resisting all attempts at negotiation are the passionate critics in Netanyahu?s own government. The closer he moves to Arafat, the more tenuous is his control...