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Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all. And Friday, in an auditorium filled with Georgetown University students, President Clinton made stalling for time sound like a reasonable political decision. For the moment, he announced, the United States will not proceed with its planned National Missile Defense system. The next President, who will have to reassess the plan?s various diplomatic and technical glitches, will make any decision to shift out of neutral. The $60 billion defense project was to be completed in 2006, but this delay could easily push that date back a year...
...report that stress tests have been "stable and unchanged for the past several years." But they don't provide Cheney's so-called ejection fraction, a measurement that tells doctors how well the heart is pumping blood. "Stable and unchanged does not mean normal," says Dr. David Pearle at Georgetown Medical Center. "That is cautious wording. It could be mildly or even moderately abnormal and still be stable and unchanged...
...claim to know Joe Lieberman well. We've talked maybe 10 or 20 times - interviews on the phone, some rides on the Capitol subway. My home in Washington is near the Georgetown synagogue (there's an oxymoron) that Lieberman attends. When my wife was pregnant, he patted her tummy...
...talk about race and class and be taken seriously. I hope you'll give me the benefit of the doubt, because I'm pretty sure both of these factors influence opinions about my neighborhood. Eastern Market used to be a depressed neighborhood and is undergoing something of a renaissance. Georgetown has been the established center of Washington money and power for 200 years. Eastern Market is adjacent to more run-down and depressed areas on three sides. Georgetown juts against areas that are even more ritzy and exclusive. Although Eastern Market itself is predominantly white, many of the surrounding blocks...
...fear of the different and the unknown. I do not believe my friend's parents are racist or elitist. Such epithets imply a much more active hatred than I see at work in people's fears about my neighborhood and the surrounding areas. Instead, I think that my Georgetown and suburban friends fear Southeast for the same reasons that cross-racial friendships are rare. People are more comfortable with other people who are like them. Well off, white suburbanites feel more comfortable with other well off, white suburbanites. The run down buildings and the different colors of skin are unsettling...