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...help for the steel, oil and mining industries, among others. Not any more. "We really don't have time" to consider the Yugoslavia spending legislation separately, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday. So by the end of next week, Clinton should get that $13 billion poke in the eye -- and Central Americans should get the help they need. Only six months late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the War in Kosovo Helped Central America | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

...decisions,=It s basically an oligarchy that rules the University.=The fact that the ultimate body is so secret is part of the reason Harvard is so hard to influence. When you have a complaint to bring against the University, you don t know where to poke your stick.=interfaculty initiatives,=Power ultimately rests in those kinds of decisions,=very long-range issues.=physical planning,=shareholder responsibility,=a lot.=I think it works quite well because it separates governance from oversight,=a love of Harvard.=pretty amazing.=the prestige aspect.=fat cats and millionaires.=These guys know nothing about education...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer and James Y. Stern, S | Title: Hidden Power | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...region was settled by German farmers in the 1840s, and many of them built tiny "Sunday houses"--weekend cottages that are not a lot bigger than a child's garden playhouse. Now the area is host to home restorers like the Mileses, as well as visitors coming to poke into craft and antiques shops and dance the Cotton-Eye Joe at the famous Gruene Dance Hall, where Garth Brooks once played. One of the attractive qualities of this historic town is that the old and the young kick up their heels side by side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: New Braunfels, Texas | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...stereotype, and the players know it, which is why they poke fun at it. "Milk" is David Meriwether, 17, 5 ft., 11 in., a junior whose mere presence at the Los Angeles school dropped more jaws than his first dunk ever could. When Meriwether steps onto the court for Crenshaw's first regular-season game this week, he will become the first white basketball player in the school's 30-year history. In a preview of the anticipated pandemonium, Meriwether's introduction at a recent preseason scrimmage prompted more than 1,000 students to stomp and chant his politically incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Meriwether: White Men Can Jump | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson dam held and Jonas somehow kept the puck out of the net. Among his many saves was an amazing diving poke check to knock the puck off Clarkson top-scorer Erik Cole's stick as the center attempted to skate around the netminder on a breakaway with under 10 seconds remaining in the period...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, | Title: Tale of Two Teams | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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