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Many other Senators, who are still smarting from Packwood's veiled threat of two weeks ago, privately agree that he should resign. That step not only would bring a rapid end to the ethics committee's sexual-misconduct inquiry, prompted by allegations by at least 26 women, but would also spare the Senate the discomfort of deciding what punitive action to take if the charges prove convincing (although his resignation would not prevent the women from pursuing lawsuits). If he fails to resign, the ethics committee may decide to push forward shortly with open hearings on the sexual-harassment charges...
...institution has always been popular among Washington officials because it provides the most direct channel to inject U.S. interests into European policymaking. But all the talk about stretching NATO's front line has touched off an intense debate inside the Clinton Administration. In general the Pentagon opposes the rapid inclusion of Eastern states on military grounds, while the State Department tends to view such inclusion as a mechanism for advancing democracy, market economics and Western values...
...lighting may have been well-designed conceptually, the image on the screen is often imprecise and unclear. The music also accomplishes nothing more than a gesture. Two themes dominate, one an expensive, lyrical motif, which appears in all the places one would expect it, and the other a rapid undulating figure which may have indicated tension when Prokofiev employed it in the "Fiery Angel" but now only suggests spiders crawling furiously about their webs...
...obstacle to creating a vaccine against the virus, says Dr. Martin S. Hirsch, a professor of medicine at the Medical School and director of AIDS research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), is the rapid rate at which the virus mutates. "A single vaccine won't be effective against all the active strains that are out there," says Hirsch...
...rapid growth of fund sales through banks is just one reason why Congress is taking a closer look at the industry. Another is a recent series of cases involving abusive practices. Just last month, Chicago-based Kemper Financial Services agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle Securities Exchange Commission charges that a former portfolio manager had credited lucrative trades to his employee profit-sharing plan while dumping lesser transactions on two mutual funds. Also last month, First Investors Corp. settled charges brought by five states that had accused the firm of misleading customers, many of them retirees...