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According to a report in the New York Times last week, school districts across the country are eliminating the only time of the day when kids could be kids--recess. Calling it a "waste of time that would be better be spent on academics," schools from Chicago to Atlanta to Virginia have already implemented a no-recess policy, and the trend seems to be accelerating...
Starr ignored the fracas and focused on the goal of sending his report to Congress before the midsummer recess. In meeting that deadline, he faces another stumbling block: the refusal of White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal to answer certain questions about their discussions with the President and First Lady because, the White House claims, the conversations are covered by Executive privilege...
...Philadelphia, Suzanna Schamber, 10, says that it's good gossip at recess and that nobody is going to talk her out of what she knows in her heart: "He did it. You can tell by the way he's hugging her in the films. They did something they weren't supposed to do, I think in the Lincoln Bedroom." But there's an even more serious offense in all of this, Suzanna warns a nation desperate for sound advice: "Monica wears too much makeup. Big ol' chunks...
Whether that kind of attitude prevails in the U.S. is another question, and the House of Rubin will be watching closely in coming weeks. Some lawmakers will surely attack the new aid package after the holiday recess. Populist Democrats will object to any bailout of Wall Street speculators, and conservative Republicans will see little to praise in a taxpayer subsidy for a foreign government. The White House will defend its actions, noting that Korea is strategically more important than other Asian nations...
President Clinton took the middle road Monday on his embattled nominee for the nation's top civil rights post, eschewing a Senate-baiting recess appointment in favor of installing Bill Lann Lee with an "Acting" in front of his new title...