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...close-knit group of people that care a lot about each other," O'Leary said of the department. "We need to find a way to finance the needs of all the teams...
...fight. Congressional Democrats may well turn aside a Republican effort expected this week to write the ban on gay soldiers and sailors into law. While a permanent order is being drawn up, though, the White House faces intense opposition from Pentagon brass, who deeply fear disrupting the closely knit culture of the armed services, and constituents who have been deluging Congress with mail and phone calls. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold extensive hearings; chairman Sam Nunn helped negotiate the interim compromise but announced that he still favors keeping the ban. On Thursday Los Angeles Federal District Judge Terry...
...before existed in such a dimension." Chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the Molln case -- his first involving right-wing terror, despite some 3,400 acts of violence by radicals in the past two years -- and within days officials rounded up two suspects from a loosely knit far-right group in the Molln area...
Clinton's covenant talk mines a long American tradition, running right back to the Puritans. "It is of the nature and essence of every society," said John Winthrop, "to be knit together by some covenant." But what kind of covenant? Winthrop's was based on obedience to a Calvinist God, which is not something Clinton is likely to call on. This is where familiarity comes in, to provide the needed emotional glue...
...soul" of Clinton's foreign policy team, for orchestrating the strategy that managed to neutralize voters' concerns about Clinton's inexperience on the world stage. Characteristically, Lake was not hanging around Little Rock or jockeying for West Wing office space. He had already returned to his cows, his close-knit family and his students at Mount Holyoke College. Friends tease him about being Cincinnatus, but his love of rural independence is no act. "I moved up here because I did not want to spend the next however many years of my life trying to get some job in Washington...