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...since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
Unfortunately following that disappointing 2-8 season, Bibro returned to the doctor that winter and underwent yet another surgery--this one arthroscopic. With only two years left in his career and very little left of his knee, rather than resign himself to retirement as others might have done, Bibro returned his junior year and topped his previous year's totals with 47 tackles. His performance spearheaded a defense which ranked third against the run in the nation and 18th overall...
...Last week it was revealed that Chubais was one of five co-authors who received $90,000 advances for a book on the history of privatization. Yeltsin promptly fired two of the writers, First Deputy Chief of Staff Alexander Kazakov and Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Boiko, and accepted the resignation of a third, Cabinet member Pyotr Mostovoi. Chubais also offered to resign, but Yeltsin, who reprimanded him, felt he was still needed to clean up the economic mess...
President Hosni Mubarak has asked his Interior Minister to resign, despite the latter?s good record in the fight against Islamic extremists. But the massacre highlights an intractable problem for the authorities. ?The government have made it very clear that they will not negotiate with the militants,? says Radwan. ?They?ve been using harsh measures up to now, but it hasn?t stopped such attacks ? which are easy for even only a handful of people to carry out.? Radwan believes the most important factor undermining popular support for the militants has been Egypt?s tourism-driven economic recovery. Which...
...accept her "woman's place" within the walls of her house, never straying outside to the wild world that tempts her mysteriously. Garcia Lorca's complaints against the oppression of women come through sharply in some of the ideas which Yerma herself embodies: when Juan suggests that she resign herself to being childless, she reproaches him, saying, "Men have another life--their flocks, their orchards, their conversations! Women only have their children and caring for their children...