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...House leads Brooks to admit that "compared with the people who now set the tone for the Clinton administration, let's face it, those Ivy League meritocrats look like the Founding Fathers." Poor Richard Nixon--the godfather of conservative resentment of the Eastern Establishment--must be spinning in his grave...
...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
Tucked inside the rows of uneven graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, it is easy to believe that the unofficial war in Northern Ireland between Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries continues. Two boys visit a lump of plastic flowers that passes as a fresh grave, the caretaker sweeps a traveled path past still shining headstones marked "IRA Volunteer" and the police surveillance camera hovers atop a thin gray tower across the Falls Road, watching shadowy forms dart among the monuments...
...raising. Most important, he is still torturing the language and the law. As a White House aide explains it, he knew what he was doing, and not doing, with Monica, and feels that he acted, and answered, so that he was indeed legally accurate. "He will go to his grave believing he didn't perjure himself," says the aide...
...grandfather had been a diver in bridge construction and told stories that hypnotized young Rene. He would have his own story now. Tethered to his 88-ft. boat and wearing 100 lbs. of equipment, he dropped slowly into the grave: 50 ft., 100, 150. At 180 ft., he was on the ocean floor with about 25 ft. of visibility, standing in the horror...