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...boundary agreement between the U.S. and Cuba. And, as shown by the defeat of major free-trade legislation last month, Congress seems less inclined than in the past to join international movements. The nationalist passions reflected in the candidacies of Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan have sunk deep into Republican politics: just before Congress adjourned this year, it refused to pay $1 billion in back dues to the U.N. or to contribute the $3.5 billion the International Monetary Fund was asking to help stabilize Asia's economies...
...celebrate the digitally-inspired boom, TIME magazine has made Intel boss Andy Grove its 1997 man of the year. But while the California chip-makers are popping champagne corks, the Windows part of the "Wintel" axis has spent the week shrouded in gloom. The Justice Department has sunk its teeth into Microsoft, and neither Janet Reno nor Joel Klein seem inclined...
Whatever his motives, Gephardt is standing in the way of continued prosperity. The fear that foreign workers are seizing U.S. jobs is unfounded. As Lewis noted in the Times, despite the lowest trade barriers in history, the U.S. unemployment rate sunk to its lowest level in more than two decades. And Gephardt's protestations about workers' rights and environmental degradation only hold water if we believe that we can effect more change through idealism than persuasive engagement...
...Camilla: Unsinkable? Prince Charles took the children of his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles to the royal premiere of "Titanic" Tuesday night. One reporter called it "a defiant signal to the prince's critics and a clear sign that his relationship with their mother ? unlike the ship ? was far from sunk." For more celebrity news, click on People Daily...
...pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded by a pair of sphinxes. These are not the original sphinxes, which Mrs. Viele found too buxom, and which were then sunk in the Hudson River. Cemeteries reward the ironist...