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Those clarifications came overnight Saturday. While Pentagon planners revved up military forces for a possible Sunday strike, the White House engaged in a diplomatic marathon, trying to finalize an Iraqi commitment to unlimited and unfettered inspections. Early in the morning, in a final letter to the U.N., Baghdad abandoned the last of its conditions, and Clinton warily told the military to stand down. In a Sunday morning press conference, the President (who confessed he hadn't had much sleep) called the result a win: "Our willingness to strike produced the outcome we preferred." But he also made it clear that...
Fellow junior Joe Green continued his impressive fall by reaching the round of 16 before losing after putting a major scare into Aaron Marchetti in a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 marathon loss...
...harassment. Employees can choose among eight "resource councils"--groups representing gays, women and Native Americans, among others. The company sets aside a specific share of purchases each year for minority-owned firms (what conservatives like the Coorses usually call--gulp--quotas). And the brewer has sponsored everything from a marathon gay dance party in Miami to "the first corporate mammography program in the country," as the company gushes...
...also courted Congress enough for Newt Gingrich to push through a $1.8 billion increase in the intelligence budget this year, bringing it to $29 billion. Tenet avoids the media and refuses to talk about his Middle East foray. But in an exclusive interview with TIME after the Wye marathon, he maintained that the CIA "can have an enormous impact on the future, but the fact is that we have to become a more agile institution...
What remained constant in Wolfe's mind throughout this creative marathon was a tour two Atlanta friends had given him back in 1989 of the plantations of southwest Georgia, immense tracts of property, dotted with sumptuous homes and extensive outbuildings, maintained at staggering expense by the superrich for the principal reason of shooting quail in season between Thanksgiving and the end of February. "I look for milieu first," Wolfe says, "the setting of a story before the story itself, and I was astonished at those plantations, their psychological location in the past and the tremendous amount of conspicuous consumption required...