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While Gonzalez thinks that the armed forces will eventually confront the issue of "don't ask, don't tell," he sees student discussion as an important precursor to policy change...
While Gonzalez thinks that the armed forces will eventually confront the issue of "don't ask, don't tell," he sees student discussion as an important precursor to policy change...
...world in careful speeches in front of think tanks that would be largely ignored. Now their strengths and weaknesses are in full view: Buchanan, McCain and Gary Bauer (on leave as Family Research Council president) at least have the benefit of strong, albeit wildly different, convictions. Bush has to confront his inexperience; Elizabeth Dole is determined to show that her positions come from her own work with desperate refugees, rather than from pillow talk with Bob, who served as Clinton's envoy on one Kosovo mission in early March; billionaire publisher Steve Forbes wants to show he really knows...
Perhaps the most astonishing reality to confront was that the largest NATO military action in the alliance's 50-year history offered scant relief for the crude savaging of Kosovo. Officials doggedly insisted the "cumulative effect" of NATO's bombardment was starting to tell on the Serb war machine. They also said the late-week strikes against Belgrade itself were only a beginning. Even though many in NATO were nervous about bombing a European capital, the images of Belgrade buildings on fire was the first p.r. victory for the allies--and it made them hungry for more. As planners unleashed...
...think we're going to see the merger of some elementary schools. Our enrollment in them has steadily declined. Our kindergarten enrollment is below 500 students," she says. "We know that we've lost kids as they go up through the grades, so we need to confront the problems of can we affect enrollment, can we keep them in the system...