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...optimistic, since the deadlock over whether members of the Sinn Fein party will be allowed to take their seats in a new Northern Ireland assembly before the IRA has turned over at least some of its guns appears to be a primarily symbolic issue. On the other hand, the fact that both sides have refused to budge on a who-goes-first quarrel despite the late hour suggests the breakdown signals a case of cold feet on both sides...
...course, all of this is just talk at the moment. The betting is that the bigger part of the spending (that $794 billion) will not get approved until Clinton has handed over the keys to the White House -- if it's approved at all. "Little things may get passed," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "but any serious shoring up will probably have to wait for a new president and Congress." Meanwhile, of course, those "little things" will go a long way toward wooing seniors over to the Democratic half of the voting booth in 2000. They?ll also...
...silly cap is in fact a very manly country-music star. It's the perfect disguise. 3) On the way out to his car, he comes to a fence, and instead of walking around to the opening, as ordinary non-studly types would do, he rests one hand on top of the barrier and swings his whole body over, as if he's in an action sequence in T.J. Hooker. It's a little thing, but muy macho. It helps you understand the screams of women at his concerts...
...forest, only a fraction of which have been set aside as wild-animal preserves. Logging is a major problem, although if done prudently the displacement is temporary; the removal of selected trees can even increase, over time, the type of vegetation gorillas prefer. Logging roads, on the other hand, are deadly because they provide access to poachers...
...committee (take note, NATO), it's Kasparov's first public confrontation with computer technology since his match with IBM's Deep Blue in 1997. Those games, billed as a historic confrontation between man and machine, ended with man's humiliating defeat (and petulant calls by Kasparov for IBM to hand over Deep Blue's printouts; two years later, they still refuse...