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Before civility in politics completely broke down, George Bush gave midnight basketball the Republican imprimatur. In 1991 he visited the first such league, in Glenarden, Maryland. "The last thing midnight basketball is about is basketball," President Bush said at the time. "It's about providing opportunity for young adults to escape drugs and the streets and get on with their lives. It's not coincidental that the crime rate is down 60% since this program began...
...proved to be no match for Barbara Mikulski. On July 26 the diminutive but unquestionably ferocious Senator from Maryland went to the White House with several Democratic colleagues to review major legislative problems like health care with Bill Clinton. But she pressed a different priority: removal of Wilhelm as party chairman. If the Democratic caucus were polled, she said, it would be unanimous -- Wilhelm must go. Party elders, notably Senate majority leader George Mitchell, demurred. But Mikulski's complaints had wide resonance. Last week the White House informed Wilhelm that Tony Coelho, a tough and controversial political pro, would...
...monarch, who was deposed in 1961 when Rwanda became independent, has just relayed a message to the Kigali government, promising to let the people decide whether he should rule if he's granted entry. For now, King Kigeli, 58, lives in the Washington suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland. A recent report said the impoverished king had applied for food stamps there...
After much wrangling, a compromise was reached. The defense's experts could visit Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Maryland, where the prosecution had sent the samples for testing, and could pare off 10% of each sample. But the material removed would in effect be held in escrow. After hearing expert testimony, Judge Ito would rule on the disposal of the sliced-off portions...
...tests being performed in Maryland involve two different techniques: RFLP (for restriction fragment length polymorphisms) and a newer process called PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Both are based on the fact that no two people except for identical twins have identical...