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...vote. Though the denouement seemed newly uncertain, two things were relatively sure: to get even this far, given where he started, Clinton has waged a remarkable drive. And if he does hold on to win, his campaign will enter the textbooks as a model of how to prevail on the road to the White House...
NINETEEN MILLION FEMALE BABY boomers are marching up to that slippery patch of the life cycle once known as "the dangerous age." This is the generation of American women that reinvented feminism, wrote Our Bodies, Ourselves, and learned to examine their cervices with mirrors. But can they prevail over menopause -- the hormonal bog that ate up Ur-feminist Simone de Beauvoir and that reportedly reduces sleek Hollywood women to palpitations and tears...
...going to be tough but we will do well," Captain Peter Stovell said. "Our mystique from the last few years will help us prevail...
Bloomberg may need all three to prevail. Customers are starting to move away from specialized terminals, like the Bloomberg, that cannot be linked to standard PCs or run off-the-shelf software. Some large vendors have already made the investment to switch to "open" systems. Knight-Ridder has developed a PC-based service using Microsoft's popular Windows program. Reuters is teaming up with PC-maker Intel. And EJV Partners, the joint venture of six Wall Street firms, is building a system designed to run on personal computers. But Bloomberg stubbornly rejects this approach. He fears that he would lose...
...whether Shining Path withers or grows strong again depends on how well the government performs. The conditions that gave rise to the insurgency back in the 1970s -- poverty, injustice, deep resentment over racial and class distinctions -- still prevail. Until Fujimori finds a more stable, equitable, democratic course, there will be impoverished Peruvians willing to subscribe to an alternative vision, no matter how ruthless or violent...