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...course, the name of former professor JosephS. Nye, now an Assistant Secretary of Defense, isalways in the rumor mill, although many said thisweek they doubt that he would accept the postafter being passed over several years ago whenCarnesale was chosen to replace Dillon Professorof International Affairs Robert D. Putnam...
...rumor mill began humming after Michael Jordan showed up for three straight practice sessions with his old team the Chicago Bulls. "I have decided to end my baseball career," Jordan said. All sorts of speculation were rife, and late Saturday word spread that Jordan would rejoin the Bulls for their March 24 game against the Orlando Magic and Shaquille O'Neal, the N.B.A.'s current megastar...
...again. Most online veterans tend to agree that the challenge is to merge the connections made in cyberspace with real lives. ``We're not going to bridge anything simply by connecting,'' warns Jones. ``We can build all the bridges we want, but if we don't cross them and mill about, we won't make any kind of connections that count...
...something different from the usual crop of lawyers. They are the Jacobins in this revolution. After dropping out of college in 1980, Texas Representative Steve Stockman spent a summer homeless on the streets of Fort Worth. Eventually he found shelter with relatives and a job in a steel mill and made his way back to college. In his ear- ly 20s, Tennessee's Zach Wamp struggled back from an addiction to cocaine. The electoral wave of last November, he says, ``was so big that some people crashed ashore who normally would not have been here...
...this talk -- and it was very loud in the Russian capital last week -- arises not out of the usual Moscow rumor mill but from the country's desperate need for explanations. Worried Russians are struggling to understand why there is such an obvious, crashing contrast between what Yeltsin says about the nasty little war in Chechnya and what everyone knows is really happening in the secessionist North Caucasus republic...