Word: ohio
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...Whip Tom DeLay of Texas actually keeps a book in his office listing how much the 400 largest special-interest pacs gave to either party in the past two years and makes sure contributors to the Democrats are marked down in his book as "unfriendly.'' Representative John Boehner of Ohio is in charge of orchestrating how interest-group lobbyists can raise cash to promote the Contract. What do the lobbyists get in return? Awe-inspiring access to the legislative process, including the right to write the bills themselves, like the one passed last February that imposed a 13-month moratorium...
...tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment, and in the ensuing weeks, Holbrooke relentlessly bullied his interlocutors toward the bargaining table. Finally, they sat down to talk peace in Dayton, Ohio, last month. The reason everyone quit fighting, it was joked, was that this was "the only way to get Holbrooke to go home...
...minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed near Dayton, Ohio...
...APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR YOUR article could have been "Evolution's Big Bust." One hundred and thirty five years of Darwinism out the window just like that? What a poor excuse for the absence of transitional forms. The Book of Genesis is looking better all the time. MIKE CHRISTIAN Tallmadge, Ohio...
Currently dean of the College of Medicine at Ohio State University, Healy notes that she is one of only three female medical school deans in the country, the same number as there were 25 years...