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...soon as they heard a rumor that this was a possibility, they were gung-ho about it, lobbying for us to do it," she said...
...months slipped through June, July and August, when we were absolutely gung-ho to start our research, to the useless months of the early fall when standardized tests, job applications and extracurriculars had us asking, "Thesis? What thesis?" It never goes away, though, and avoiding one's advisor in the department office can work for only so long. By the turn of the faux millennium, a helpful kind of panic had set in, with fewer than four months before D-day and much work still to be done...
...campaign. Although seizing Grozny would be more of a symbolic victory than anything else - the bulk of the Chechen separatist army has already retreated into the mountains - even that now looks unlikely without suffering heavy casualties. And one of the reasons the Russian electorate has been so gung-ho on the current Chechnya operation - and Putin - is the impression that Russia is winning while minimizing its own losses. Putin's road to the Kremlin runs through Chechnya, and it's starting to look a little boggy...
President Clinton must be in agony; he seems to be feeling pretty much everybody's pain at the riot-riven World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Everybody, from labor activists to environmentalists to gung-ho advocates of free trade, got an empathetic nod from Clinton in a speech he delivered Wednesday. "The general consensus is that he gave a very deft speech," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "He skillfully assuaged all sides, on most of the hot issues." Notably, the President is pushing the WTO to open its doors to public scrutiny and accept peaceful protests as integral aspects...
...everyone has a gung-ho passion for the senior class and for Harvard," Krebs said...