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ABERDEEN, Maryland: Army officials are denying claims by five white female army recruits at the Aberdeen Proving Ground who say they were pressured by military investigators to claim falsely that they were sexually abused by their superiors. "I agreed to tell them what they wanted to hear," said recruit Kathryn Leming, "in order that they leave me alone." Darla Hornberger, a 30-year-old private from Oklahoma, supported Leming's assertion, sayin g: "They put it down on paper. All I did was sign it. (They) had what they wanted in their heads and that's what they...
Clinton is the master of the air, of the televised town meeting and the ad campaign. But now the key battles over spending and tax cuts shift to conference rooms, where Lott is master of the ground. He arrives well armed, as the only national leader to emerge from the last election with his power enhanced and his image unsplattered by campaign-finance scandals...
While computer games may be addictive, violent--and even dare I say it--a grand waste of time, it is heartening to realize that in a world where College-issue sweats and pocket-protectors signify a continental divide, computer games provide a sense of common ground...
Percy Barnevik is in full flight, his long arms flinging one transparency after another onto the overhead projector to show figures from the latest European Union study on global competitiveness. "Pitiful," he snaps at one slide on Europe's low investment in Southeast Asia. "We are clearly losing ground," he says, slapping down a chart on the dwindling European share of world trade. When he finishes his downbeat presentation at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels, a reporter asks if he has any fresh proposals to solve the problems. "We don't need any more bright ideas. There are lots...
...thousands of community radio stations, which provide local news, weather and sports, and have made the U.S. system of broadcasting the envy of the world," says National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton. Maybe, but the more immediate question is whether digital radio will even get off the ground. Companies offering the satellite link will have to shell out millions in start-up costs, and then wait an estimated three years for stations to get their equipment in working order to pick up the signal. Another problem: no one seems to know what market, if any, exists for the digital...