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...Ohio) today. Most of the initial votes will concern internal congressional procedure, and the action tomorrow is likely to be concentrated in the House. After new members are sworn in, they will elect Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) to the post of Speaker; following that they are expected to embark on a rule-changing binge that may last over 12 hours. As laid out in the GOP's "Contract With America," the changes will include cutting committee staffs by one-third, requiring three-fifths majorities to boost income taxes and applying all the laws that private citizens and businesses must obey...
...Mayr dropped his medical education midway and switched to studying biology when he decided to embark on scientific expeditions. After earning a Ph.D. in zoology, he studied birds in New Guinea for two years...
...says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's the best deal we could have gotten," he says. The fly in the ointment: inspections into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...
...played on his self-described attributes--an earnest demeanor and a knack for organization--to embark on an orchestrated face-to-face campaign...
...blacks are still likely to feel defensive when some other black commits a crime. The death by drug overdose of Wardell R. Lazard, head of the most successful black Wall Street firm in history, will reinforce those proclivities. Yet it may be time to put aside such sensitivities and embark on a new phase of affirmative action that helps blacks move up the career ladder in crime as they have in other professions. Big-time financial crime is, after all, one of the last great bastions of racial inequality. Why should a small number of white financiers have a virtual...