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...Wing is already consumed with responding to questions and document requests from Republican committees investigating Clinton's operation. The risk is that Clinton will go from the Permanent Campaign to the Permanent Cross Examination without passing through Governing. The atmosphere surrounding these probes could grow shriller if, as some predict, the leadership of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee probing the travel-office affair and the fbi-file flap passes from retiring Representative Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania to the more volatile Representative Dan Burton of Indiana. Overseeing Senate probes will be Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, who worked...
...news policy not to call an election in a state until the polls have closed, Kast said. Although all the votes are not necessarily counted right away, the news stations use exit polls to predict the winner...
...directors to accountants, liable for any statement or act that "directly or indirectly, willfully, knowingly or recklessly" results in a loss to any pension fund, retirement fund or even a personal savings account. Companies would be fair game for class-action lawsuits for both reporting and failing to predict bad news. Corporate officers would be personally assessed for punitive damages, and their firms could not indemnify them. The proposition would also prohibit any attempt to set new limits on attorneys' fees...
...people watch the series," he notes, "at some point they're going to say, 'Is that really in there?' And they're going to look at a Bible. And they're going to be dumbfounded how it speaks to their own life." He feels no need to try to predict "whether this will make them march to the churches and the synagogues, or merely recognize that here is a classic of Western literature. That's almost incidental," Visotzky contends. "The Bible can pretty well speak for itself...
Today scientists manufacture buckyballs by the pound and in a variety of sizes and shapes, from flat sheets to long filaments. Some can hold atoms of other elements in their hollow interiors; others can conduct electricity. Given the versatility of buckyballs, scientists predict that they will someday be used for, among other things, drug-delivery systems, superfine electrical wires and hairlike tubes of unprecedented tensile strength...