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Inspired last year by the work of Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck, the coordinated effort among the schools will culminate in a conference on the topic at Wellesley next fall...
...believe she would betray her principles to shield a President to whom she didn't seem much attached. But her public vote of no confidence in her task force's probe makes it harder now for her to argue that a special counsel isn't necessary, despite her latest effort to whip the team into shape. Washington was surprised in March when Reno chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically sensitive investigation. From the start there were tensions between Ingersoll and the FBI agents she worked with. Building...
Clinton wanted to join in that symbolic effort, and he put heavy pressure on the Pentagon to endorse it. But in the end, he said, he could not "in good conscience" accept the treaty as written. "There is a line that I simply cannot cross," he explained, "and that line is the safety and security of our men and women in uniform." Says a retired four-star general: "He couldn't take on the Chiefs." And if he had, there is no way the Senate would have ratified the treaty with the nation's top commanders against...
...Kodak's bets on the future have so far brought more problems than profits. After investing billions of dollars to create the industry's most extensive line of digital cameras, Kodak could pile up losses of more than $100 million this year, and some analysts doubt that the effort will ever pay off. The devices (price range: $200 to $900) record images on microchips for computer users. But the field is already glutted with dozens of rivals, from traditional camera makers such as Canon and Nikon to Silicon Valley giants like Hewlett-Packard. Fisher counters that naysayers saw few profits...
Critics say the early retirements will help finance a wholesale rebuilding effort. Indeed, in its 1998 budget, the Navy is seeking $3 billion to replace the Seawolf with a third generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines. It argues that Russia's fledgling Akula and yet to be built Severodvinsk classes are "projected to outperform today's most advanced Western submarines in many respects." Someone should tell the Navy that the cold war is over...