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Good choice. Chaotic is how things must feel right now at the White House, as each day brings another shot over Whitewater and the FBI files. But the explanation doesn't require much scientific theory. For months Clinton has been waiting for the G.O.P. contender who would turn the '96...
Peres' career is finished, and Israel's last direct link to its founding fathers is gone. Israeli political consultant Ron Werber calls Peres' indomitable path in politics "a via dolorosa" that has led through triumph to final humiliation and grave disappointment. After this last and most anguishing loss, Labor is...
The Dream Girls, a.k.a. the U.S. women's basketball team, won their 47th-straight game, defeating Cuba 106-58. Smothering defense helped turn a 58-32 halftime lead into a rout over a team that should be a medal contender in Atlanta. Lisa Leslie, the 6-ft. 5-in. center...
Bellying the bobcat fight of a finish at the end of the season, the team started the season on their heels. Its first Ivy games were losses to Penn, 1-3, and to Princeton 0-3. They then began playing on their toes, beating Columbia, 3-0, and then Cornell...
The president of Radcliffe, Mary I. Bunting, was the only woman mentioned as a candidate, but she was never considered a serious contender.