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...special briefing from the President on Friday, some Republican legislators did not hide their doubts. "Americans are going to be killed," said Utah Republican senator Robert Bennett. "And they will be killed in a war that Congress has not declared." The Senate will vote next week on legislation to curb funding for a Kosovo peacekeeping mission...
...returned home to Quincy House a few nights ago, I saw a large skunk scurry across Plympton Street right in front of me. It darted out the back of Hillel, ran across the pavement and disappeared under a car parked on the far curb. The skunk stopped me dead in my tracks--I figured it wouldn't attack unless provoked. But it was more than just fear of fumigation that quickened my pulse. The sight of such wildness, incongruous against the backdrop of red-brick Georgian houses, unsettled me in a way I can't completely describe. Why would...
...Protection Act, Congress's latest attempt to ban cybersmut. The law was intended, its backers say, to protect children from "teaser ads"--sexually explicit free samples that many porn sites offer before making users pay by credit card. But the court agreed with critics who said the measure would curb not only teasers but a wide range of less racy Internet speech directed at adults...
...just before midnight and by careful plan, a man with big ears exited the Ritz Hotel in London with his longtime girlfriend after attending a birthday party for her sister. Side by side, they waited momentarily on the curb for their car. This event was attended by 200 photographers, all there to capture the duo's first public appearance as a couple, and heralded by a British paper as a "Royal Night of History." Thus was CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES officially sanctioned the Royal Girlfriend by PRINCE CHARLES. Nothing like spontaneity to spark up a romance...
...administrators, however, did acknowledge that competitive pressures helped bring the changes at the University, and the overlap arrangement would have helped curb that competitive pressure...