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...decision to press for a stiffer NATO response to Serb aggression. Clinton is skilled with a driver and loves nothing more than to put his weight into his swing and blast a ball 250 yds. off the tee. His weakness is his short game and a tendency to "chili dip"-mishit the ball on chip shots so that it dribbles just a few yards. Passing tourists beware: When Clinton and Erskine Bowles, his deputy chief of staff and regular golf partner, take to the South Lawn, they sometimes move 60 yds. back and play the green like a hole...
...number of diplomas marks a slight dip fromlast year's 1,625 bachelor degrees, Smith said...
...romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such shivers had never been experienced or expressed before. Madison County was like the affair it describes: a brief skinny-dip in the warm lake of nostalgia...
Such realizations punctured some of the early forecasts of a silver lining in Kobe's tragedy. Even as heavily hit manufacturers like Kobe Steel had to absorb further jolts on the stock market, construction-industry issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
...Chechnya is far worse than a dip in the Russian road to democracy, and the Administration is well aware of it. The war is a colossal blunder. The Russians managed to lurch out of two years of dithering, during which they ignored the republic's secession, into a sudden overreaction and a total military and political disaster...