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...become dean of two graduate schools at Pepperdine University had drawn a chorus of boos from Republicans and happy hoots from the White House, while also prompting rampant speculation that Starr's investigation, which cost millions and prompted Senate hearings last year, had finally run out of steam. While Starr insisted repeatedly that his decision had nothing to do with the state of the investigation, nobody was buying. "If a message has been inadvertently sent,? he said hopefully, ?that message has been corrected." Maybe not. Starr sounded desperate to quash any hopes that the investigation was winding down, answering...
...when sophomore Erine Metcalf found the back of the net after a number of Huskies riddled the Harvard goal with shots. Three different Northeastern players were dangerously close to skating through the crease, but the equalizer counted nonetheless. That was when the Crimson ran out of steam, and the Huskies took control of the game...
...experts say, the hot job spots should remain hot for at least the rest of the decade, or for as long as the economy continues to steam along without a sharp recession. "The technology revolution is engulfing the globe," says Sinai. But pockets of low employment, and the gap between educational haves and have-nots, will also endure in the U.S. and always threaten to widen. That will remain a cause for concern even as the upsurge in jobs remains a cause for celebration...
...hold waiting for Yeltsin either to govern in his previous forceful manner or step aside. "The basic stuff gets done," says Quinn-Judge, "but no major initiatives have been implemented." The economy continued to shrink in 1996 and the Kremlin's bold tax-collection initiative has run out of steam. Yeltsin has been utterly unable to keep his promise to pay the back salaries due state employees ranging from teachers to coal miners. While his aides are saying the president could return to his desk as early as January 28, "That is very much a hope rather than an assumption...
...sexual relationships, Gregory decides that the sole route to true happiness is through intellectual stimulation alone, and places an ad in the newspaper to that effect. Sister Claire answers the ad for Rose, the two star-crossed non-lovers meet, and our fairy tale begins to pick up steam. But after some months of electrifying conversation and a mutual exchange of ideas, it becomes crystal clear that the plot can only be headed for that inevitable moment when Babs is going to put her foot down and demand...