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...wiggle room by his lawyers. After all, if clearing the site and pouring the concrete can be deemed to be within the bounds of the ABM treaty, then the White House can at once quiet Republican criticism by showing that it is building a missile defense system and insist to Moscow that it isn't violating the treaty. But though slick lawyering may give Clinton the opportunity to punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next presidency, the Russians watch CNN, too - and they know that the concrete President Clinton would order poured...
...surface among voters. Although a majority still support capital punishment, the number is down to 66%, from a high of 80% in 1994. But fully 92% support making DNA testing available to those convicted before its widespread use. At the moment, only two states, New York and Illinois, insist on giving inmates on death row access to the new technology. Why the shift? Part of it may be the legacy of the country's lower crime rate--even though murder stats have registered a slight uptick in a few major cities (see box). The flurry of sentences overturned...
...spawning a swarm of new complaints--and not just from grade-wary parents. Some educators argue that the program is pointless paper pushing. Worse, they insist, grades will turn off the very parents schools need to engage. "Should a single parent who works two jobs and doesn't have much time for school activities get her knuckles rapped?" asks Gary Natriello, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who has studied report cards of all kinds. "It will only make her more likely to hide at home...
...have a huge calling toward celibacy, which will probably ultimately be the way I'll go," says O'Connor. "Obviously I am a very sexual person, and that's why it's a struggle." O'Connor opens up her jacket to reveal her sleek figure. "I do insist on wearing very feminine and feminine-cut priest gear," she says. "And I don't feel that being celibate means I have to cut off my sexuality, because that's my life force...
...treaty, such as the exact boundary lines of a new Palestinian state, how many Palestinian refugees will be allowed to return (both to the new entity and to Israel), and who controls Jerusalem (both sides want it as their capital). At least for public consumption, Barak and Arafat each insist they're the one doing all the compromising and the other guy's being stubborn. U.S. diplomats, as one put it, keep hearing the same line from both men: ?I've put down my bottom lines and I've got nothing in return...