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...mother Susan, it was an especially hard episode. "I'm not holding up very well," she tells TIME. "It's been a very rough week." Levy says both she and her husband Robert take sleeping pills and tranquilizers at night. "I'm often sick to my stomach. It's sheer terror." Still, Levy won't call for Gary Condit to quit. "Let the people decide for themselves." But she does take a shot at California Governor Gray Davis, noting that he hasn't called the family, whereas the state's two Senators have...
...with enough analysis and scientific reasoning. "Everything I do, I research and find a scientific answer," he says. "If the analysis is right, I'm never reluctant to make a decision." This is the hubris of the technocrat, one who believes he can wear down Thailand's problems with sheer studiousness...
...Hillary Clinton get to this point? By sheer hard work; she has put in long hours mastering the issues and political minutiae of her new home state. And by finally, at long last, becoming her own woman...
...showers bring May flowers, what pops up when it rains through most of May and June as well? A bumper crop of mosquitoes, as communities from Texas to New Jersey have learned only too well this summer. The best reason to avoid being skeeter bait is, as always, the sheer human misery of dealing with all those itchy red welts. But this summer there's also the chance, admittedly small, of more serious consequences, especially now that the West Nile virus is spreading up and down the Eastern seaboard...
...getting worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International. "The pro-whaling lobby is bringing in countries with no history with the IWC, or even with whaling. Their job appears to be to filibuster, confound and confuse - to influence voters by the sheer number of words spoken." And, she might have added, sheer number of people present. Japan had a team of 50 - twice that of the next largest, those of the U.S. and Britain. Japan's tactics didn't work this year. For the world's biggest foreign aid donor of the past decade...