Word: passes
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...excuse for inviting donations--$60,000 was raised at a Chicago funeral, for instance. But all kinds of Albanians are responding to the call. Avzi Bejadini, an ethnic Albanian peasant in western Macedonia, tells how he and others in his village have scraped together money that they pass along to the fund raisers who parade through the countryside. "We all have emptied our pockets because of the obligation we feel toward our ethnic Albanian brothers in Kosovo," he says. Indeed, just last month the farmer sank his entire life savings--$8--into an account to help collect food and supplies...
America decided 200 years ago to keep her church and state separate, out of respect for both. But Columbine confounds the Constitution; everyone is coloring outside the lines, between what is sacred, what is secular. Ministers call on lawmakers to pass gun-control laws, lawmakers call for religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren...
...higher than a 3 on an AP test and you can't get a 600 on an SAT II and you can't pass the Harvard language placement test, I think it's fair to conclude that you really don't know the language well enough to be exempt from taking a course," he wrote in an e-mail message...
...doomsayers are right and the worst-case Cold War II with China comes to pass, the U.S. will at least have a good idea of how their nukes work. Burrowing deeper into the contents of a pair of top-secret reports on China's alleged nuclear espionage, the New York Times reports that Beijing has indeed put some of those stolen secrets to use -- on a small, mobile ICBM called the Dong Feng-31, expected to be ready for deployment as early as 2002 or 2003. "The DF-31 ICBM will give China a major strike capability that will...
...resumption of its precipitous plunge, which the Yevgeny Primakov government, fired by Yeltsin on Wednesday, had managed to halt. And investors had good reason to be very afraid. "The IMF has made clear it won't give Russia a cent until a new package of reform legislation has been passed," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "There's no way a cabinet that doesn't yet exist will put together that legislation and pass it through a hostile Duma in time for the IMF's July meeting...