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...then attempted to reach the new President by phone. Zedillo was not answering. Salinas tried ringing lower-level officials in a frantic bid to negotiate. A few called back, but none could help. Finally, in desperation, he dispatched several members of his military guard to his sister's house. Halfway there, the guards were halted on orders of Defense Secretary Enrique Cervantes, who had radioed for them to be stopped...
...cross. Farrell learned the rule from her Catholic mother: "Modest women, if they must cross their legs at all, cross at their ankles and never at the knees." And if you wear a dress or skirt, "when you try to cross your legs, the dress goes halfway up your...
...Gates ``hippies.'' Yet creative forces continue to emanate from that period. Virtual reality -- computerized sensory immersion -- was named, largely inspired and partly equipped by Jaron Lanier, who grew up under a geodesic dome in New Mexico, once played clarinet in the New York City subway and still sports dreadlocks halfway down his back. The latest generation of supercomputers, utilizing massive parallel processing, was invented, developed and manufactured by Danny Hillis, a genial longhair who set out to build ``a machine that could be proud of us.'' Public-key encryption, which can ensure unbreakable privacy for anyone, is the brainchild...
House Republicans held a campaign-style rally to celebrate the halfway mark of their 100-day "Contract With America" legislative blitz. Meanwhile, President Clinton and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt met with reporters to underscore concerns about the potential impact of GOP legislation on poor children. Gephardt said that GOP reform plans would gut the federal school lunch program. At the GOP rally, Speaker Newt Gingrich warned beaming supporters that the going is getting tougher: the remaining "Contract" provisions, which include welfare reform, term limits, tax relief, eliminating affirmative action laws and reforming the legal system, will spark heated congressional...
House Republicans held a campaign-style rally to celebrate the halfway mark of their 100-day "Contract With America" legislative blitz. Meanwhile, President Clinton and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt met with reporters to underscore concerns about the potential impact of GOP legislation on poor children. Gephardt said that GOP reform plans would gut the federal school lunch program. At the GOP rally, Speaker Newt Gingrich warned beaming supporters that the going is getting tougher: the remaining "Contract" provisions, which include welfare reform, term limits, tax relief, eliminating affirmative action laws and reforming the legal system, will spark heated congressional...