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...case, it worked. By week's end, by a slight 44-to-41 vote, more Americans believed Clinton's version of events than Willey's, according to a TIME/CNN poll. No group was more persuaded by the avalanche of anti-Willey evidence than the very audience the White House worried about most: middle-class women. The strategy was so successful, it briefly allowed the White House to focus more on Clinton's legal troubles than his political ones, and consider introducing, under seal, evidence of Jones' sexual behavior to counter her new claims of suffering "sexual aversion." But within hours...
...answer isn't yet clear, but people who know Willey have told TIME that her calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility. She can be a difficult friend, they say, because one never knows when she may decide to end the friendship over some perceived slight. She is described as smart, funny and attractive, but also unpredictable. In an amended deposition, she testified that longtime Democratic activist Nathan Landow had discussed her story with her. Landow, who has raised some $600,000 for Clinton and Al Gore over the years, told TIME that "in no way did I ever attempt...
...intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and orbits before its predicted impact, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to the asteroid at its closest approach to the sun," says Los Alamos' Canavan. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin." That little push, he notes, could be provided by conventional high explosives...
...from early action to bind early decision programs, and Stanford University, which had never offered an early program of any sort, adopting binding early decision as well. During the 1995 and 1996 admissions cycles, about 3,900 students chose our non-binding Early Action Program, and we experienced a slight increase to 4,200 this year. The number of applicants admitted early grew from 725 four years ago, for the Class of 1998, to 1,048 for the Class...
There was a slight error, which I do not think you will mind my calling attention to. It concerns my African name. I would like to spell it correctly...