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...Patricia Ireland, another South Florida denizen urging Reno to run: "The same people knocking her are the ones who said Hillary Clinton couldn't sell herself outside New York City." She adds that if Democrats must win the north Florida vote that eluded Gore last year, they must also retain the massive black anti-Jeb Bush turnout that kept Gore neck and neck with W. in the state...
...excavations have also showed that the temple was a major pilgrimage center long before the Queen of Sheba was born. The evidence--inscriptions, wall paintings, fragments of bronze statues, pottery vessels, animal bones and 2,000-year-old pieces of frankincense that still retain their distinctive fragrance--indicates that the site was used continuously from at least 1200 B.C. until the 6th century A.D. The potsherds are particularly important, Glanzman says. "They may be the key to sequencing the archaeological history of the region. The technology is very sophisticated and shows a high level of civilization." References in the inscriptions...
...grown from a rural grammar school in 1899 into a state university--it is what educators call a masters' institution--with 12,800 students, the school has worked hard to retain its cozy sense of community so that every student feels nurtured and challenged...
...dissolution of the Soviet Union. Hugh Sidey writes on one of its lowest points, with President Kennedy at the construction of the Berlin Wall. Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge remembers what the city was like in August 1991, when the hard-liners made their last desperate push to retain power. Tony Karon argues that Russians, at least materially, were better off under the Soviet state. And in an award-winning photo essay, photographer Anthony Suau looks at Russia and the other Eastern Bloc countries in the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...there to disarm anyone, NATO spokesmen insist, and they'll stay only 30 days. If the guerrillas choose to hang onto their weapons and the fighting starts up again, the Western troops will simply pack up and go home - possibly taking with them whatever credibility NATO may retain as a deterrent to further nationalist aggressions in the Balkans...