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...unwise and incorrect. . .an unwise judgment on my part." Starr's announcement Monday that he would be stepping down Aug. 1 to become dean of two graduate schools at Pepperdine University had drawn a chorus of boos from Republicans and happy hoots from the White House, while also prompting rampant speculation that Starr's investigation, which cost millions and prompted Senate hearings last year, had finally run out of steam. While Starr insisted repeatedly that his decision had nothing to do with the state of the investigation, nobody was buying. "If a message has been inadvertently sent,? he said hopefully...
...Rwandan government has asked the United Nations for relief assistance. Although the U.N. has proposed a $260 million humanitarian aid package, hesitancy from President Clinton and Congress has slowed the final transactions. Perhaps isolationism is rampant in American foreign policy these days as a result of failed U.S. attempts to intervene in Bosnia and Somalia. Or perhaps apathy toward foreign issues, especially those concerning obscure refugees, do not attract our leaders' interest. During the month of November, while our country was obsessed with presidential elections, turn-overs in Congress and resigning cabinet members, dying Hutus were de-prioritized. Indifference...
...economics at Belgrade University, believes that Milosevic, a former banker, has spirited huge amounts of money out of the country and into banks in Greece, Israel and Cyprus, where Milosevic's friend Borka Vucic runs an offshore private bank. The money, argues Dinkic, was extracted from ordinary Serbs during rampant hyperinflation and siphoned to foreign bank accounts from a network of black-market currency vendors and quasi-government banks. Even if that is not true, it seems the Milosevic family values are costly indeed...
...possible price of a failed honor code (rampant cheating, for example) would be too great to risk...
That pudgy little plumber is jingling all the way to the bank. Two months after its release, Nintendo 64, the 3-D-saturated game machine, and its marquee title, Mario 64, have vanished from the shelves, inspiring rampant supply-side panic among hordes of would-be Santas...