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Workers at the site took the opposite stance...
...recent survey by an Internet sampling company, Harvard University's Web site was ranked sixth by total Web users--five spots behind Massachusetts Institute of Technology's site, which took first...
XIAN, China: President Clinton just arrived in what must be the longest motorcade the Chinese have ever seen. He has the Treasury Secretary, the Secretary of State, six congressmen and this huge entourage with him -- it just went on for miles. All along the drive through the city, which took at least half an hour, the route was lined with people, sometimes five or six deep. There were maybe 100,000 people out on the street, just to get a glimpse of President Clinton driving by in his limo. The impression was that they were drawn by the spectacle -- they...
...professional career, he mentioned casually to reporters that he hoped one day to be named defensive player of the year as well as MVP. A young writer named Jan Hubbard, then with the Dallas Morning News, wrote at the time that it could not be done, that it took too much additional energy to be that kind of defensive star and that no one would have enough energy to do both. But then in 1987-88, Jordan was named both the MVP and the defensive player of the year, and Hubbard wrote that he had been wrong. Michael Jordan...
...cases encompass a very large patch. Klayman operates like a smaller-scale but even more freewheeling independent counsel, using civil lawsuits to go after Clinton's circle to its most outlying ripples. (He first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the fund raiser embroiled in the Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where...