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...COLUMBUS: This was supposed to be just a prewar formality for the poll-sensitive Clinton administration: an interactive town hall meeting in Ohio intended to sell the nation -- and the world -- on military action against Iraq. But the President's three foreign-policy salesmen nearly got the door slammed in their faces. Madeleine Albright's opening statement was interrupted by chants of "One, two, three, four, we don't want your racist war!" from a handful of protesters. Bill Cohen and Sandy Berger both got a scream or two of "Murderer!" One man angrily denounced the entire forum...
Inside, the cathedral is a monument to enormity, befitting the religious ecstasies of Gothic architecture. It is both a functioning church, a crypt--the remains of Christopher Columbus, who died more than 100 years before Harvard was founded, are said to lie here--and a treasure house of art and reliquaries...
...couple of measures, the thousands of analysts who study individual U.S. companies haven't been this worried about the profit picture in years. Clifford Fox, managing director at Columbus Circle Investors, keeps track of the revisions stock analysts make in their earnings forecasts. In the 10 days ending last Thursday, only 33% of the revisions made were upward ones--a two-year low for that reading. John Manley, analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, notes that December was the first time since 1992 when there were fewer upward revisions in the month than the average for that month over the five...
...conference, scheduled to take place Columbus Day weekend, will be the first of its kind. It is designed to provide an opportunity for students to discuss pertinent Chinese-American topics from the involvement of Asian-Americans in the national campaign finance scandal to the recent appointment of Bill Lann Lee as assistant attorney general for civil rights...
...according to experts. When I was eight years old, I told everyone the new mud flap with the rhinestone on my Schwinn was the prize for winning the biking competition at the Knights of Columbus. I was humiliated when the fact checkers in my neighborhood found out I'd only collected the consolation prize for slow-riding. Chastened, I stuck close to reality until I was trying to account for some dead spots between college and law school, and law school and life. Rather than admit to traveling aimlessly around Europe, I put down that I was studying French...