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Asked whether that scenario might pose aconflict of interest as well, Davis said she woulddiscuss the matter with Dean of Students Archie C.Epps...
They got everybody to the Congo peace table except the ones who really matter. After six weeks of haranguing over which rebel groups got to sign where, the document that is solemnly being called the "Lusaka Accord" bears all the big names: Congolese president Laurent Kabila and his backers in Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, plus two rebel groups (and one splinter group) with their backers, Rwanda and Uganda, witnessing. But TIME chief of correspondents Marguerite Michaels doesn?t give peace much of a chance until all the soldiers lay their guns down. "I?m not optimistic," she says, "because there...
Until now, the best clues to the existence of a black hole were X-ray emissions from its accretion disk, the swirl of nearby matter that is steadily being pulled into the body. When the Goddard scientists looked at a suspected black hole in a galaxy 100 million light-years away, however, they saw X rays not being emitted but being absorbed--the signature of ionized iron gas being drawn directly into the maw of the hole. The scientists knew the gas was on the move because its X rays were redshifted, stretched as their speed increased so that they...
What you did 25 years ago doesn't matter; what you did during the past 25 days should matter. And I'll pose a question to you, Governor. Recently you said you'd sign the Republican tax bill as is. And you also said you'd repeal the Clinton tax increases and expand the earned-income tax credit to reach more people. No disrespect meant to the office of the Governor of Texas, but to put it bluntly, How are you gonna pay for it, Hoss? If you did a little "blow" 25 years ago, that's your business...
...Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "But if the whole Kosovo mission turns out to be a dramatic failure, it?s clear that Washington is going to blame it on the U.N." That?s not something international diplomats will take lying down, since the U.S. strenuously avoided even discussing the matter at the U.N. when it went to war in Kosovo, and since the international body?s resources crisis isn?t exactly helped by the fact that Washington is delinquent in its dues to the tune of $1 billion...