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...Pentagon official dismissed the session as a "gentlemen's spat." But the divisions are real, split along lines that became all too familiar during the Reagan and Bush Administrations: a hawkish State Department urging military action and a cautious Pentagon holding out for more diplomacy. Not surprisingly, press reports of the should-we-or-shouldn't-we debate left Haiti's obdurate rulers more skeptical than ever that Clinton would force them...
...ragpicker spat and wiped his mouth. I don't believe he can answer it, he said. I don't believe there is an answer...
...consider the problem of fraud, which high-speed computers can unwittingly abet. According to the IRS, the number of fraudulent electronic filings doubled to 26,000 last year, at a cost to the government of nearly $54 million, as computers spat out refunds before IRS examiners could go over the returns. Such incidents have led critics to warn that the rush to automated payment systems is proceeding too fast even for computer experts. "The demands on software are far outpacing the development of software," says Dain Gary, a manager at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University...
That isn't the case in baseball, though. Key players are being attacked and sometimes injured, like Boston's Paul Quantrill on Tuesday, or Cal Ripken last season, when his participation in a spat almost brought his season to an end. But you hardly every see a suspension go more than five games...
Then Dennis Rodman goes for the cycle against the Jazz--getting Tom Chambers ejected in a spat, intentionally tripping up John Stockton in the knee, hacking Karl Malone and getting ejected for taunting the Jazz bench...