Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spokespersons for both Beal and Harvard have said they consider O'Baoill's filing a "counter suit...
They want to know what military threat NATO expansion is designed to counter, how it will strengthen stability in Europe, and whether U.S. lives will have to be risked to deal with "border, ethnic, nationalist and religious disputes" in Central Europe. "I'm not convinced we should be part of an alliance that says the U.S. should go to war to protect a couple little countries most Americans haven't heard of," says Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy...
...over the stories last month that FBI Director LOUIS FREEH had advised her to seek a special prosecutor to probe possible campaign-finance-law violations by Democratic fund raisers. Reno allies grumble that the leak seemed aimed at shoring up Freeh's flagging support among congressional Republicans. Freeh allies counter that the leak hurt him more than it did her and must have come from Justice. While the probes are undermining morale and chilling official press contacts, insiders give slim odds that the Justice plumbers will actually catch any leakers. Reason? Nobody's talking...
...free to dissect her varying accounts of what happened in the suite. He should have no trouble exploiting the evidence that the troopers hoped to strike it rich and the picture of Jones as a lovesick puppy hoping to catch Clinton's eye. How will Jones counter that image? She and her handlers scheduled an interview with TIME last week, then canceled it. She may find another forum in which to repeat her tale of woe, or she may wait for her day in court. That could be coming sooner than anyone thought possible...
...There is a splendid irony in this worldwide rush to repentance. All the remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir to the gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient...