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Much to my surprise and dismay, Wimbledon was an absolute abomination. Pete Sampras, going for a fourth consecutive title, was ousted early in the running, at least for him. The men's final pitted Dutchman Richard Kraijcek--a big server with untapped potential--and Malavai Washington--a mediocre American...
...mainstreamed his campaign by accepting federal funding, the Commission on Presidential Debates shut him out of this year's political faceoffs. The decision came earlier this week, as the bipartisan committee declared that Perot did not have a "realistic" chance of being elected president. Clinton staffers reacted with dismay even as the Dole campaign was quite pleased. Both major parties assumed that a Perot appearance would have focused much more criticism on the Republican nominee than on the president...
...summit produced no breakthroughs on the next steps of interim Palestinian self-rule: an Israeli redeployment in Hebron, the last major Palestinian city still under full occupation, plus further withdrawals in the West Bank. To Palestinian dismay, Netanyahu insisted on reopening the Hebron agreement already completed by the previous Labor government. And while Netanyahu said last week that he may eventually be prepared to start discussions on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those negotiations had already begun under Labor. Publicly, Arafat's aides praised last week's summit, but privately they expressed reservations. Said...
Despite his dismay at the course the President has taken so far, Wilson says he is "optimistic" that Clinton will address the job issue if he is re-elected. "He wants to be remembered as a President who alleviated human suffering and improved the life chances of the poor," says Wilson. But any further effort to create jobs will depend not only on whether Clinton wins a second term but also on whether the Democrats regain control of Congress from Gingrich and his henchmen. By then the President may have had time to read and digest all the lessons...
...When John Kennedy promised that by the end of the 1960s we would put a man on the moon," he says, "everybody, including the scientists, shook their heads in dismay. But we did it. We can cure spinal-cord injuries too, if there's the will. What was possible in outer space is possible in inner space...