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...mixture of relief and almost giddy disbelief sums up the mood on the Bush campaign plane Wednesday. Going into the three-week debate season, Bush's advisers had been hoping merely to survive. In their own minds, at least, they were facing the most celebrated debater of his generation, a professional who had decimated Ross Perot, humiliated Jack Kemp and skewered Bill Bradley. The Bush team worked that angle hard, raising expectations for the vice president and lowering them for the governor. In selling the spin, it helped that they also believed it. But after the first two debates with...
...White House is now privately confident that Yasser Arafat won't unilaterally declare a Palestinian state on Sept. 13. He'd threatened to do it by that date if he didn't have a peace agreement with Israel. But Arafat's three-week world tour of the Middle East, Europe and Asia, which he began after the Camp David summit collapsed last month, hasn't been a fun trip. At each stop, foreign leaders have warned him not to count on their support if he declares statehood on his own. Behind the scenes, U.S. diplomats have been conferring with...
...encouraging. A four-year study by Purdue University found that students on a 210-day calendar outscored peers who had fewer days even if they came from households with little education. Also promising are schedules that stick to the 180-day norm but replace the three-month summer with several three-week respites throughout the year. The shorter vacations cut down on learning losses and allow teachers to intervene when students start lagging...
...while opposition to Richardson has been rumbling for a while, this breach may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. How does one explain, for example, the three-week delay between the initial discovery that hard drives containing top-secret information had been taken from the Chris Carter-esque "X Division" of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and any report to Washington...
...Crimson followed that respectable showing with an impressive third at the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) Championships and capped a phenomenal three-week success streak...