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...Link's supple shape was what initiallyattracted this subjective--nay, thrilled--reporterto the scene. A deep archway is cut into therectangular, three-story building's center,allowing pedestrians unhindered access to thescience complex beyond and a glimpse into thelaboratories within. The passageway is long andwide and lined with glass. "Oxford Street is amajor circulation space," says Jim Collins, Jr.,the principal architect. "It seemed inappropriateto build a building that would wall off that wholelength...
...opposition to any deployment in Bosnia indicates a lack of imagination, a commodity desperately needed there. A detailed American plan of support for the Bosnian Muslims could have pressured the Serbs into accepting a viable Bosnian state and peace. But as Presidents Bush and Clinton wavered, Powell's constant nay-saying cemented a policy of inaction...
...surprisingly, the nay-sayers spoke first and loudest. "Traitor" was the favorite word among outraged Israelis. Although Rabin's Labor government was elected 14 months ago on a platform of "land for peace," Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu called for a referendum on a deal he said would only provide ever closer launching pads for P.L.O. attacks on Israel. Rafael Eitan, a former army Chief of Staff who heads the Tsomet Party, charged the government with signing "an agreement with the greatest murderer of Jews since Hitler." In the Knesset, Peres coldly dismissed hecklers with, "You are the men of yesterday...
...what he had paid for it and precisely what staggering profit he expected to realize." But the similarity between Chartwell and the L.B.J. Ranch was evident in more than these details. Johnson's visitors, Alsop recalled, "have the same feeling that visitors to Chartwell have -- that they are expected, nay, commanded, to exclaim and to admire." A certain kind of country seat provides a President with the chance to impose his expansive, extraordinary personality on others; a condo on Hilton Head would somehow lack something in this regard...
...Thursday night, Clinton calculated that he had perhaps one or two votes more than the 217 he needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening to our strategy...