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McCain and Feingold, who vowed to bring the bill back into the well of the Senate despite Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's pronouncement that it was dead for the year, hadn't expected to win this round. But the vote set the stage for Senator McCain to make the issue a centerpiece of his Republican presidential primary campaign, and for the Democrats to take it into next year's election. On his way into a fund-raiser for Democratic congressional candidates Tuesday night, President Clinton lashed out at the Senate vote as a "victory for the politics of cynicism...
...were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could see her bra and having nail polish smeared on her body. "This is uncharted territory in gender discrimination law," says TIME senior reporter and legal analyst Alain Sanders, raising such questions as: Can the same action performed on a man and a woman be considered...
...these issues are not set into motion once again I fear for the future of the republic," he said. "I want a young girl someplace to say, after watching the film, 'Wow, I can do that...
...says. But so is the government. "And for companies such as Loral and Hughes, which are still under investigation over exports to China, a McDonnell Douglas indictment could be cause for concern." If it does go to court, though, the case will involve a lot more than just a set of dual-use machine tools that wound up in the hands of the People?s Army ?- the defendants clearly plan to bring the entire U.S. policy on high-tech trade with China into the dock alongside them...
Despite the trappings of democracy, Indonesia?s presidential election process is about as transparent as the Vatican?s College of Cardinals. And so, as the 700-seat national assembly gets set to choose a new president on Wednesday, tension over the outcome is increasing, with the legislative building surrounded by angry demonstrators. "None of the three front-runners commands a majority in the assembly, and that has laid the process open to precisely the kind of Byzantine backroom deal-making that has enraged the protestors outside," says TIME Asia reporter Nisid Hajari...