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...culminated in a moral crusade to track down stolen wealth hidden away inside the vaults of Zurich and restore it to the victims of the Holocaust. The proximate cause was money, but the soul-searing intent of the men and women who set the hunt in motion was to peel back the veil time had cast over the evils of Nazism and expose the truth...
...knew that his majority would be smaller, his freshmen chastened and, as Clinton completed his tack to the center, that the leverage of moderate Republicans would increase. There are nearly two dozen members of Gingrich's caucus who are moderate enough for Clinton and Dick Gephardt's Democrats to peel off. Last week Gingrich began exploring with his advisers, including his wife Marianne, how to reach out to the moderates whom just a year ago his freshmen openly attacked. The man who once criticized Clinton as a "work in progress" might chuckle now as he moves to the center...
Sitting in his office, Weiss scans a computer-enhanced image of a newborn baby lying in intensive care in Saginaw, Michigan, 100 miles north of Detroit. The child was born wrapped inside a rare membrane that causes its skin to peel away in gobs, leaving the baby dangerously exposed to infection. Viewing a high-resolution picture of the youngster sent to the hospital and displayed on a PC, Weiss is able to diagnose the condition, known as lamellar ichthyosis, and suggest a treatment. "It was pretty horrendous," he says of the infant's condition. "But we were able to tell...
...strike against Caterpillar. Since the strike ended in early December, the firm has forbidden incendiary slogans like "Families in Solidarity" and suspended dozens of union employees for infractions as tiny as failing to shake a foreman's hand with sufficient alacrity. A 52-year-old worker who failed to peel union stickers off his toolbox fast enough was threatened with loss of retirement benefits...
Dole doesn't smoke and rarely drinks. He eats carefully while in town and follows Nixon's admonition never to eat before a speech. On the road he indulges in Kentucky Fried Chicken, and his advancemen have been known to peel off from his motorcades in search of local Dairy Queens on his behalf. "Gotta eat a little something," he'll say. "Gotta keep the energy...