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...Last year was so many `what ifs,"" Wheaton said. "I feel like we never played up to our potential. This year, I want to contend for the Ivy title. It's not always in our control, but I'm pretty optimistic...
...meeting of the Global Forum in Moscow in 1990, when he was still Soviet President, Gorbachev proposed an organization roughly analogous to the International Red Cross to contend with environmental problems that cross national boundaries. Last year the Earth Summit in Rio passed a resolution establishing the International Green Cross, and six months later the Dutch government donated $1.1 million to get things going. At about the same time, Roland Wiederkehr, an environmentalist and member of the Swiss Federal Assembly, started the World Green Cross. Gracefully acknowledging Gorbachev's star power, Wiederkehr accepted the Russian's invitation to merge...
Privately, several of the President's advisers contend that the current runaway spending on public and private health care is a growing burden on the economy, which, like a surgical patient who must feel worse before he can get better, might need to endure modestly higher unemployment for several years as the price of reform. Trouble is, Clinton has not prepared the public for any sacrifice. He and his top health-care strategist, Ira Magaziner, have been selling health-care reform as a four-course free lunch. Everyone will be covered. It won't require new taxes. It will immediately...
...much to contend with: a hotel management that wants to evict him, a slimily threatening bellhop, the sadistic cop on the beat, not to mention the dawning mysteries of sex and some sudden deaths and dislocations among his friends. The wary reserve of Bradford's performance has a crystalline quality in which you can read in his response to his father's bluster and mother's passivity. You sense in him a future manliness that will avoid both modes...
...last year over the same issue, says it will resume whaling next summer, ban or no. Japan will abide by the rules for now, but has lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless. Says Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland: "We cannot allow uninformed sentiment to decide on the controlled use of our natural resources...