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...culture where respect is of utmost importance, President Clinton showed a great deal of respect for Jiang by agreeing to disagree with the Chinese leader about human rights. Their edgy debate during a joint press conference showed Chinese viewers that their president was sparring with the leader of the United States--and Jiang was not backing down...
...when the world's scariest banker appeared before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, he was positively jolly. "Provided the decline in financial markets does not cumulate," he said, "it is quite conceivable that a few years hence we will look back at this episode, as we now look back at the 1987 crash, as a salutary event in terms of its implications for the macroeconomy." Quite...
...same, support is picking up among blacks, especially those in poorer households, and among younger voters, who don't share the automatic faith in government of the generation that fought the civil rights struggles. A recent poll by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on issues of concern to blacks, showed support for vouchers among African Americans up 10 percentage points since last year, to 57%. For blacks ages 26 to 35, the figure...
...year-old daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci) to say grace. Wendy can't take him seriously, so instead she delivers a monologue thanking God for the food they are about to gorge themselves upon, and then begins rambling about war and politics. Something is forcing this family seriously out of joint, but no one has any idea how to remedy the situation...
WASHINGTON: When both the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control sound the alarm, you can be sure it's something serious. Their joint survey on tuberculosis, released Wednesday, warns that avirtually incurable strain of TB is spreading rapidly ? and no country, developing or developed, is safe...