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...Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney says. But then again, neither is Guess...
...Bill Nye "the Science Guy" will perform for kids at the Millennium Schoolhouse nearby, and over at the American Journey Pavilion, up to 3,000 Americans can listen to others tell the story of their personal journeys, a kind of civics class for the New Age. Administration officials roll their eyes a little when asked about this, but the basic lesson is a corollary to the one Clinton took away from his first term: government can't solve all of America's problems. Citizens must look to themselves and each other for solutions...
That, however, doesn't guarantee it will rake in 'wow' revenues in this millennium. The flurry of product announcements at CES does indicate that after years of broken promises, DVD is ready to roll. "The good news," says Briesch, "is that we're starting a business in 1997." The bad news is that the emphasis is on starting. The term DVD encompasses various products, many of which won't have reached your local Radio Shack by the time you start planning your Year 2000 party...
...vote count was not made available, but according to Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Cabinet authorized the agreement by a large majority. Under the agreement, Israel is to give the Palestinians control of 80 percent of the Biblical city of Hebron within days. Israel also agreed to roll back its presence in the West Bank in three stages - beginning in six weeks and ending in August 1998. Ross said the agreement was "fully consistent" with the 1995 Israel-Palestinian agreement, but the part dealing with Hebron was more detailed. In Washington, President Clinton heartily endorsed the deal...
...complex way so that any one of them would on average beat one of the others. He was one of three people I ever showed them to who figured this out and saw the way to win was to make me choose first which one I'd roll." (For math buffs: the dice were nontransitive. One of the others who figured it out was the logician Saul Kripke...