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...fell to New York's Peter King, the leader of the rump Republicans, to explain why he couldn't bring more along. "They feel it is a moral test," says King, who has been lobbying hard for censure. "By voting against impeachment, are they supporting this immoral behavior, saying it's O.K. for the President to lie and have sex with an intern in the White House...
While such a bombardment process had been considered by scientists, it was accepted only after recent pictures were analyzed. They showed that the ring material indeed appears to flow from the rump end of the moons, and that the moons and rings orbit the planet at identical angles. "We have a definitive answer to the origin of this ring system," says Michael Belton, leader of the Galileo imaging team...
Alumnae gathering at Radcliffe on June 6, theday after Commencement, voiced disapproval of theway the planning process is being handled. "Therewas a kind of rump revolt," said Adeline Naiman'46, a member of the Radcliffe Club of Boston.Wilson wrote in bold faced letters in a June 18letter to alumnae that "no hasty or precipitousactions will occur...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...
...legged man known widely as "the Butcher," resisted the March 24 mutiny, and by last week he had clawed back some territory in Anlong Veng. But with the Khmer Rouge's having lost so many civilians, observers say, it is just a matter of time before its final rump--estimated at 500 to 1,000 soldiers--is dissolved. "Ta Mok has painted himself into a corner," says Stephen Heder, a Cambodia scholar at London's School of Oriental and African Studies. In addition, the U.S. is putting pressure on Thailand, which has ties with the Khmer Rouge, to force...