Word: marche
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...pages of writing to do before the term ends, and I'm currently suffering from e-mail withdrawal. But if I don't go cold turkey, RSI could become chronic and debilitating, Joshua H. McDermott '98, a special concentrator in brain and cognitive science, recognized symptoms of RSI in March of 1997. He pushed through the end of the semester and now has such a severe case of RSI that he must use a foot mouse and can only type about one sentence before feeling pain. McDermott told me, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have...
Senator John McCain stood in his office, his eyes squeezed into slits and his hands choking the back of a chair. "O.K., what? What?!" he barked. It was mid-morning on March 25, and two of his aides were telling him that the tobacco deal he had painstakingly negotiated among impossibly contrarian parties was disintegrating yet again--this time over how much authority the Food and Drug Administration should have to regulate tobacco products. McCain studied his hands for a moment, as if he were surprised to see the rubber band that he always keeps around his right wrist. Then...
Predictably, nothing happened until early March, when something very big happened. The Republicans came to the extraordinary realization that the tobacco industry could be sacrificed--had to be--lest the Clinton Administration hammer them on yet another populist issue. It was becoming clear to the G.O.P. that voters everywhere were increasingly anti-tobacco. Don Nickles, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, called a group of G.O.P. Senators into his office and forced a decision. A single committee would now handle the issue and produce a bill. It was an onerous assignment with a high risk of failure. But when...
...South Carolina. Hollings, 76, is up for re-election this year in what has become one of the most reliably Republican states in the Union. For him, backing any anti-tobacco bill is perilous. But Hollings believes in the goal of stopping kids from smoking. After a meeting on March 25, he agreed to support McCain's bill. In return, McCain will fly to South Carolina this week to explain the deal to a meeting of 4,000 tobacco farmers...
...clues to his mother to explain the horror that he and Drew Golden are accused of inflicting on the Arkansas community. Last week Jonesboro was still deep in mourning as almost 8,000 people gathered at Arkansas State University to remember the four girls and one teacher murdered on March...