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...Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first place for the press to call to confirm when Monica delivered that fateful piece of pizza to the Oval Office or the date the fed-up Secret Service agent kept her waiting at the gate in sweltering heat until she looked "like she went a couple of rounds with Muhammad Ali." It was Gingrich who orchestrated the early stages of the impeachment proceedings and who insisted on maximum dissemination of both the Starr report...
...supported Loker Commons, and fed the students' stomachs," said Sidney Verba '53, director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University professor. "Now with the library, their minds will be fed...
...recession, pushed there by falling commodity prices that have been deeply affected by the turmoil in Asia. This in turn has affected machinery producers such as Case and Cummins Engine, whose profits fell steeply in the third quarter of the year. Then there is the so-called wealth effect. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of the dangers of removing more than $1.5 trillion in business and consumer wealth because of the market drop. Said the chairman: "We're bound to see a major impact in personal-consumption expenditures and housing...
Cathy Collins' first memories are of knowing that she was adopted. The hardships of childhood--the difficulty of communicating with her parents, the cruelty of other children--all fed her belief that she was unwanted, her sense of being alien and unreal. She began abusing drugs and alcohol as an adolescent, but by freshman year discovered a better release. Using a knife or a razor, she would methodically slice open her arms. "A main part of it was to know I was real," she says. "With the blood flowing down my arms, I was real...
...Federal Reserve has used its might to rescue the high-flying hedge fund Long Term Capital Management [BUSINESS, Oct. 5], and some billionaire greed addicts have been spared. But where was the Fed when American farmers were having their land auctioned a few years ago? Why isn't the Fed rescuing women who are paid less than men for the same work? And why isn't the Fed saving American children living in poverty? The risk of saving this hedge fund has been called a "moral hazard." Hell, I'd call it a "moral outrage." ROBERT MARRONE Fair Oaks, Calif...