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After the decision was made to invite Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright praised this as one of America's greatest foreign policy achievements because of the security it would guarantee in the event that "Russia might revert to its old Cold War foreign policy." This seems to betray either antipathy or ignorance regarding Russia and its internal politics...
...visited Ohiri Field three weeks and five games ago. So why did Harvard revert to an ineffective approach now, when it seemed that had been left in the past? Who knows...
...will be allowed to convert an existing IRA to a Roth, and you can wait until you file your tax return to revert to the old IRA penalty free. That means that if you expect to be just under the income limit, you can convert now without fear of stiff penalties should you find that you miscalculated...
...before installing Windows 98, back up any sensitive files onto floppies. Elect to make an emergency start-up disk, which is a way to boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space and likes an additional 100 megs...
...classical" mode, which he would revert to for decades to come, can also be seen as a gesture of independence. After his collaboration with Braque ended with his comment that "Braque is my wife"--words that were as disparaging to women as to Braque--Picasso remained a loner for the rest of his career. But a loner with a court and maitresses en titre. He didn't even form a friendship with Matisse until both artists were old. His close relationships tended to be with poets and writers...