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...MUCH TOUGHER RECEPTION lay waiting in the Senate, where Republicans on the Banking Committee had uncovered new details about Altman's efforts to keep himself and White House officials informed of the RTC's investigation of Madison Guaranty S&L. The Senate committee had a special reason to double- check Altman's story: at a hearing earlier this year, he repeatedly told the committee that he knew of only one meeting on the RTC case between the Treasury and the White House -- on Feb. 2 of this year. Altman hewed to the line that the Feb. 2 meeting -- attended...
...answer that one, then you desperately need a remedial course in arithmetic (or perhaps just new batteries in your calculator). The U.S. team members, all public high-school students, started out by competing against 350,000 of their peers on the American High School Mathematics Examination, aced two tougher exams, and prepped for a month at the U.S. Naval Academy. Only then did they board a plane and become the first squad in the Math Olympiad's 35-year history to get perfect scores across the board, out- stripping 68 other nations to win the competition...
...Kuchma in neighboring Ukraine, was a measure of the deep disillusionment bedeviling many of the 15 republics that used to make up the U.S.S.R. Since the giddy days of 1991, when the republics scattered like schoolchildren at recess, independent life in what Russians call the "near abroad" has proved tougher than anticipated. Euphoria has slowly been replaced by disgust at the hardships of post-Soviet life: ethnic strife, political instability and government corruption. In the face of these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such as economic prosperity and domestic...
...there is a tougher side to Panetta too. He has a ferocious temper that has been known to reduce aides to tears when balls are dropped or questions go unanswered. He insists on punctuality, and, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, once required all staff members to clock in and out -- an unheard- of regimen on Capitol Hill. "He wanted an honest day's work out of us," said a longtime aide. Another OMB official admitted last week that Panetta's criticism can be so withering that she sometimes takes "the long way around" the rectangular corridor...
...Tougher Breed of Corn...