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...trouble with Congressional Republicans isn't that they like a good fight--it's the fights they like to pick. Time and again, most notably during the government shutdown in 1995, the Clinton Administration has beat up on G.O.P. lawmakers and in the end subjected them to painful public embarrassment. So when House Republicans forced a showdown last week with the President over his treasured plan for national math and reading tests for students--despite a White House threat to veto an entire spending bill if the testing money was not included--it seemed on the face of it that...
...city, can move relatively freely again. Palestinians had been prevented from leaving the town after last month's double suicide-bombing that killed 14 people in a Jerusalem market, as Israelis insisted the instigators of that attack were holed up in Bethlehem. But, Hamad says, a long-term shutdown of Bethlehem is not as easy as it seems: "Israelis have reached the conclusion that it is difficult to isolate Bethlehem because of its geographic nature. You need a full army to keep people from the valleys and mountains. It's difficult to monitor...
Scott E. Griffin, general manager of The Spaghetti Club, said the establishment realizes its shutdown is "inevitable," but does not know exactly when the Club's doors will close...
...called for a vote of confidence in the GOP's leadership: "How can we survive when we are led down the road of confrontation with President Clinton only to have our leadership capitulate after political damage is done?" The freshmen who survived the disaster of last year's government shutdown during budget negotiations believe that the problem is not in their ideas but in their leadership, and in particular Gingrich, who they see as too eager to compromise with the White House...
...mentioned two recent incidents--a late-night disturbance outside the Fly Club on Mt. Auburn St. and University police's premature shutdown of the Owl Club's annual Luau Party...