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...Robert Mueller and urged him to turn over the memo. When Mueller refused, Specter snapped, "Congress gave you a 10-year term and expects a response from you," according to a reliable account. "The people are entitled to an explanation." Specter then called committee chairman Patrick Leahy at his farm in Vermont, and the two men agreed to summon Mueller--and the memo--to Capitol Hill this week and, if he refuses, hit him with a Senate subpoena. If the White House tries to fight the move, says a G.O.P. source, "as many as 20 Republican senators" would vote...
...result: black students are more likely to slip behind in their studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists not only in the farm country of Modesto but also in urban districts like Minneapolis, Minn. During the 1998-99 school year, only one state (South Carolina) suspended 9% or more of its white students, but 35 states suspended that percentage of blacks, according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. The syndrome...
That may well spawn other reforms, such as allowing Cuba access to U.S. credit to buy American food and medicine. "U.S. business, tourism and farm-state politics are overtaking Miami politics on this issue," says Flake, an Arizona Republican. Florida political analysts say the Bushes want to maintain a hard line, at least until the gubernatorial election in November. But with even Fidel turning against the embargo, the Bush brothers may have less time than they thought. --With reporting by Dolly Mascarenas/Havana
...whose self-perception veered comically from reality. Despite declaring physical prowess on a par with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 1.64 meters tall he had to stand on a box to perform pull-ups. He spoke in a stammer unvanquished by regular practice before a mirror. Raised in a farm-dotted suburb of Fukuoka by a truck-driver dad and homemaker mom, he attended the vocational Fukuoka Manufacturing High School so sporadically that he flunked the 10th grade...
...lesson: the Third World can prosper if the rich world gives it a fair go. This is what makes Bush's decision to increase farm subsidies two weeks ago all the more depressing. Poor countries have long suspected that the rich world urges trade liberalization only so it can wangle its way into new markets. Such suspicions caused the Seattle trade talks to break down three years ago. But last November members of the World Trade Organization, meeting in Doha, Qatar, finally agreed to a new round of talks designed to open up global trade in agriculture and textiles. Rich...