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...President's political team was waving polls all over Capitol Hill last week that showed his approval rating unshaken by the Starr report. But the opinion that matters at this juncture belongs to a sliver of Americans: those who tend to vote in midterm elections and live in the 30 to 40 congressional districts where, for now, Democrats and Republicans still have a real contest...
WASHINGTON: For the family of Martin Luther King Jr., a sliver of satisfaction: Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she will reopen the investigation of the assassination of the civil rights leader in the hopes of answering the 30-year-old question: Did James Earl Ray act alone? But TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe says that because of the investigation's limited scope -- only new evidence and witnesses allowed -- the chance of obtaining more satisfying answers are slim...
...miss Brenda Walsh, come to Israel. Of course Israel is still Israel: a sliver of a Jewish state with minimalistic European architecture and stunning landscapes. There are dazzling markets where spices are as colorful as they are strong, and streets wind thousands of years into the past, where Jewish, Christian and Islamic names and histories overlap with tens of half-for-gotten pasts. It is still a country where archaeological digs routinely turn up artifacts from the earliest fortified cities and people my age wear peagreen uniforms, berets and guns--whether defending Israel on the Lebanese border or guarding their...
...will get done, Opie says. He's a humble man, but as you stand on his back deck with him and look across his acres toward the green rise of sweet gums and oaks in the distance, as you look beyond the flats and through the trees to a sliver of the lake, you can feel his pride. A pride that's there with that fire-hydrant job too. Opie will be on the road somewhere, come across a hydrant and have to get out of the car and go look...
Unlike in Massachusetts, it is legal to sell liquor in New Hampshire on Sundays, and so the border exemption was made to keep liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be covered by the exemption. Store owners in Ipswich, Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control...