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...economy craters and the surpluses go up in smoke - some of his allies say President Gore would jettison a few of his promises. "Everyone understands that what is said in the heat of a campaign isn't fully binding," the frustrated adviser says. "Once you're in office, you reassess and get things done...
...Friday, in an auditorium filled with Georgetown University students, President Clinton made stalling for time sound like a reasonable political decision. For the moment, he announced, the United States will not proceed with its planned National Missile Defense system. The next President, who will have to reassess the plan?s various diplomatic and technical glitches, will make any decision to shift out of neutral. The $60 billion defense project was to be completed in 2006, but this delay could easily push that date back a year...
...cities by 2005 - an assessment that has been pooh-poohed by many inside the administration and intelligence community, as well as European NATO members, China and Russia. Clinton may be given more wiggle room on the politically popular program next week when the nation's intelligence agencies meet to reassess North Korea's capability, as well as the expected fallout if the U.S. goes ahead...
...before. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani finally heeded the advice of probably just about everyone but his inner pugilist and on Friday dropped out of the race he'd never even officially entered. Citing his prostate cancer, and not his marital chaos, as a force that had made him reassess his priorities, an emotional Giuliani waxed philosophical for a while - "I used to think the core of me was in politics, but it isn't" - and called himself, Gehrig-style, a "very fortunate man" before announcing the decision he'd leaked hours before: "This is not the right time...
Fazili's receiving of the Harvard College Women's Leadership Award provides an excellent opportunity to revise and reassess the classic stereotypes of Islam as intrinsically misogynistic and oppressive; it is unfortunate that Dean Avery has not been able to take advantage of this opportunity. Fazili was elected by her Muslim classmates on the basis of the many outstanding qualities Dean Avery cites. Her gender did not enter the discussion until Dean Avery brought it up. Today, as before, the Islamic Society stands committed to the equality between men and women that characterizes the foundations of the Islamic faith...