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...Gephardt who made the Democrats' pre-Christmas offer of peace ring across the capital. "We need to start healing; we need to start binding up our wounds; we need to end this downward spiral that will end with the death of our representative democracy," Gephardt said as he urged in vain for the chance to vote on censure. Linking Livingston with Clinton, Gephardt said, "Our Founding Fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels. We are on the brink of the abyss. The only way we stop this insanity is through the force of our own will...
Even so, Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, believes that "for most of Asia, the financial situation has stabilized, but the region has not yet turned the corner." Markets are recovering, and some currencies are rising in value after a wild spiral of devaluations. Moreover, most Asian countries are beginning banking reforms, while governments are spending more to stimulate their economies. A worldwide lowering of interest rates, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, has helped support an improved outlook...
...this is more than just a house Christopher Reeve could use. The top floor is a concrete box that hangs implausibly over the column-free middle floor, as if two halves of an Eskimo Pie were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows slide away on hidden tracks to make the room disappear almost entirely. If that's not complex enough, there's a three-story-high bookcase...
...ECAC) finds itself with a similar record but in a much different predicament. Two home losses last weekend--a 2-1 setback Friday against Clarkson and a 5-1 defeat the next evening at the hands of St. Lawrence--leave Harvard in the midst of a downward spiral rivaled only by that disastrous team of 1940-41. CLARKSON 2 HARVARD 1 ST. LAWRENCE 5 HARVARD...
...Turnovers feed on each other," co-captain Sarah Russell said. "We fell into a terrible downward spiral. We got the 16 turnovers because we didn't respond to the first few, and we didn't make the appropriate adjustments...