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Robert K. Dornan, the feisty presidential hopeful and former member of Congress known as much for his charisma as his staunch conservatism, spoke at the Harvard Law School Forum yesterday evening to an audience of about 60 people...
...main problem for Clinton--and Gore, the staunch environmentalist who wants to be President--is that any effective option will probably reach directly into the pocketbooks of American voters. That's because the big steps it will take to slow the rate of warming require that the White House find ways either to discourage fuel use or to encourage greater use of environmentally friendly technology. The first can mean higher energy taxes; the second can mean more expensive machinery, although some experts argue that the switch doesn't have to cost a lot more. Last month the Department of Energy...
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the 107th mayor of New York City, was greeted by a calm student protest, a few staunch supporters, and hundreds of interested listeners when he arrived at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum last night to speak on "The New Urban Agenda...
...border. Most important, the P.R.I. lost its majority in the lower house of the national congress for the first time since the party was founded 68 years ago. This tectonic shift in federal power could hamstring the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, a staunch U.S. ally, and possibly sweep his party out of office when a presidential election is held...
...this year's June 4 rally that it was time for Hong Kong to "forget the baggage" of Tiananmen. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is widely credited with cleaning up Hong Kong's notoriously graft-riddled police and civil service in the late '70s and maintaining a staunch bulwark against the rampant bribery, kickbacks and favoritism that have infected the mainland. So when a Tung spokesman indicated that the word independent was being dropped from its English name because it did not appear in the Chinese, Hong Kong again suspected the worst. (It was all just a technicality, the spokesman...