Word: thursdaye
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...around 8 on Thursday night in the White House residence when a small group of advisers quietly started talking about whether it was time for Bill Clinton to grovel again. To their surprise, he was already there: "I've been thinking about this for a couple of days," Clinton said. He had begun scratching out notes about what he would say: not another legal brief--his lawyers had been delivering those all week--but something a little more spiritual, about taking responsibility and accepting punishment and sending the signal that he finally, finally...
...What we know so far about the war on Saddam: "His headquarters is now rubble," said Gen. Henry H. Shelton at Thursday's briefing. More than 50 sites were targeted Wednesday -- with varying degrees of success -- but not the man himself. "We have not been tracking Saddam Hussein by day," said Shelton, "and Saddam Hussein was not the objective established for this operation." The President will review the results of tonight's attack before deciding on whether to continue, but Thompson expects the nightly bombing runs to continue Friday and possibly Saturday, when the holy month of Ramadan begins. "Depending...
MONEY Daily's morning gut-check with top analysts and traders on Thursday found them counseling "watch and wait," but not expecting anything approaching a selling frenzy. All of that could change very quickly, though, if U.S. troops become involved on the ground. For now, some traders are taking some precautionary steps to get out of international stocks. "We have been doing some swapping," says Hugh Johnson, First Albany's chief investment strategist. "We've sold some stocks with big international exposure, like Dupont, ConAgra and Phillips Petroleum, and have bought Staples and McGraw Hill. I'm trying to make...
Wang Youcai and Qin Yongmin, two of China's most prominent dissidents, went on trial Thursday in separate cities for trying to set up an opposition group to Communist party rule. The men mounted their own defense -- after authorities scared away potential lawyers -- on charges that could put them behind bars for life. China is sending out yet again "one of its periodical signals that it will not tolerate opposition beyond a certain point," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
Preemptive strikes don't just come against Middle Eastern countries. Thursday it came from the House, where the Hill newsletter Roll Call reports that House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston (R-La.) told the Republican leadership that he has had extramarital affairs in the past and offered to resign his post. The leadership did not accept. "I have decided to inform my colleagues and constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie, I have on occasion strayed from my marriage and doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family," Livingston told Roll Call. He went...