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With the clamor of opposition calming, Clinton should be able to hear something else: The sound of two important United Nations missions going down the drain. And though quieter, this sound is far more dangerous...
...University psychiatry professor George Ganaway fears, it may "trigger a backlash against ((legitimate charges of)) child abuse. As these stories are discredited, society may end up throwing the baby out with the bath water -- and the hard- earned credibility of the child-abuse-survivor movement will go down the drain...
Government forces in Iraq have accelerated their campaign to clear opposition Shi'ite Muslims from a vast marshland in the southern part of the country. Engineers have diverted water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to drain large areas of the swamps, home to an estimated 200,000 people, and Iraqi soldiers have burned villages and carried out summary executions. Some witnesses have described attacks using chemical weapons...
Suppose more was required? Chances are it will never happen, say Administration aides; the cap is a psychological sop to conservatives who are worried that the subsidies would become an open-ended drain on the Treasury. Officially, though, the President and Congress would have to decide whether or not to put up more money. That alarmed some liberals, who feared that the feds would simply let some people go without insurance that they could buy only if they were given additional subsidy, and that the Administration would thus renege on its promise of universal coverage. More likely the caps would...
...does well in the bit where the host and theevil bosses exchange ideas for inventions. Mike'sinvention, a huge umbrella with gutters and aspout drain, is wildly popular with the robots,although the bosses don't think much...