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...primacy of federal law. Just nine days after Clinton's Inauguration, when the Administration had barely appointed enough staffers to run the department, a career USDA lawyer drafted a letter to Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Rossello, making that rather technical argument. Espy signed it three days later, on Feb. 1. That night, at a National Governors' Association meeting in Washington, Espy urged Rossello to release the embargoed chicken. Two days later the regulation was suspended. The chicken...
When Kim Il Sung's firstborn son came into the world on Feb. 16, 1942, he was given the Korean name Jong Il. He was also called Yura, which is Russian. After all, he was born in Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East. North Korean mythographers prefer to obscure that unpatriotic nativity, claiming that their Dear Leader first saw light on sacred Mount Paektu -- the site, according to legend, where Korean civilization sprang into existence 5,500 years ago. Such official obfuscations have ensured that Kim Jong Il remains mostly myth himself, even as he succeeds his father and becomes...
Back in March, TIME and other news organizations reported that Stephanopoulos on Feb. 25 separately phoned Treasury chief of staff Josh Steiner and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman (then acting head of the RTC) to inquire angrily about the appointment of former Republican U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens -- a harsh Clinton critic -- to assist in the RTC investigation of Madison Guaranty, a failed Arkansas savings and loan whose proprietor had been a Clinton business partner and fund raiser. Officials familiar with those calls told investigators that Stephanopoulos asked whether Stephens could be dismissed. Stephanopoulos later explained that he was "just blowing...
...almost two years, said Beganovic, his family lived barricaded in their small home, slipping out a back window to fetch food, harassed nightly by neighbors. The end came on Feb. 16, when two men wearing women's stockings over their heads charged into the house demanding money. The Beganovics had none to give them. "They hit my nine-year-old," says Rasema, Nazif's 33- year-old daughter. "I saw that her nose and ears were bleeding, and I screamed at them to let her go. Then they turned on me and raped me, one after the other. My whole...
...CHAMPIONSHIPS--FEB...