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Workers on Capitol Hill barely had time to dismantle the scaffolding for Clinton's second Inauguration before the politics of the next presidential election began getting in the way of business in Congress. With Gephardt staking out positions to the left of Gore on a range of issues, Republicans complain they are suddenly finding Clinton far less accommodating than they had hoped. Even Democrats agree. Not only is the White House gauging g.o.p. reaction to each proposal, says Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, "they also now have to worry about how much of a real political fight it creates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUT WILL IT HURT AL? | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Betting or not, Harvard golfers also complain about misconceptions surrounding their game...

Author: By Tobie E. Whitman, | Title: Sports That Don't Get Enough Attention | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...have occurred to Liu that people go to church for the explicit reason of worshiping God. Some people do believe in that stuff, you know. If Liu does not want to hear about God, that is his prerogative, but he should not come to Sunday church and then complain that God has been thrust upon him. --Noble Hansen

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: God Will Be Found in Church | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

Medvedovsky is one of the many students at Harvard who complain that their workload can, at times, make a good night's sleep hard to come by. Yet Medvedovsky manages, like many of her peers, to use her creativity to balance a healthy workload with a not-so-healthy sleeping patern...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: Undergraduates Find Creative Methods for Balancing School Work and Sleep | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...lucky for us the Whitney Museum would rather die than give up trying. Critics, however, would probably have killed the Whitney Biennial, the museum's signature showcase of contemporary art, years ago if it weren't for the fact that they would miss having a major exhibition to consistently complain about. The '93 Biennial, which featured the Rodney King video, was deemed too narrow and political, the '95 show too reactionary in its overemphasis on painting. Ironically, this year's exhibition has been labeled "tepid" and "boring" by critics who attack the broader curating that their past reviews would seem...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: The Greatest Show on Earth | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

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