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...time was ripe a year ago, when an interagency review unanimously advised recognition. But it was a congressional election year, and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who handles the emotional MIA issue, vetoed the idea. On this go-round, still well before the 1996 presidential primaries, Lake signed on. Clinton simply checked a box on a decision memo and the deal was made. A senior Administration official says, "I don't have a sense that the President agonized over this...
...order to keep a reasonable class size, our professors, while going all- out to make their courses attractive, have to resort to lotteries, making matters even worse for students. When talking about Literature & Arts C-49, a Core in its first go-round this semester, Professor Lee Ou-fan Lee said during his first lecture, "The Core Office asked me to give my course a sexy name." The name he finally ended up with, Cultural China in Contemporary Perspectives, may not be that sexy, but he does use some teaching methods -- modern movies and MTVs -- that are sexy enough...
Fast-forward a quarter-century and Gates, now 47, is poised to become the youngest -- and yet the most experienced -- CIA director since the agency was founded in 1947. But first Gates must win the Senate confirmation that eluded him on his last go-round, in 1987. Then the agency's deputy director, he was criticized for not acting on indications that the Iran-contra scandal was afoot. No wrongdoing by Gates was proved, but he withdrew his name from nomination to spare President Reagan further embarrassment...
...Catholic bishops and human-rights groups refused to participate, the junta announced plans to set up its own council. Given the government's anger that Duvalierists were banned from running this time, many Haitians expect the junta to finesse the rules so that they can stand in the next go-round. It is also expected that the government will try to disqualify those candidates who displease the army...
...astronomers and other scientists, the thrill goes far beyond a squint through an eyepiece on a shivery night. Although experts warn that Halley's latest go-round -- or apparition, as they call it -- could be the dimmest of the 30 visits in recorded history, from a scientific standpoint it will be nothing short of the Fourth of July. Next March, as Halley's speeds toward its closest approach to earth, it will be greeted by five diminutive, instrument-crammed space probes, two launched by Japan, two by the Soviet Union and one by the eleven nations of the European Space...