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...negotiators from the U.S. and Japan stepped in to try to forge an agreement in Geneva. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto began a series of what they vow will be round the clock meetings as they try to reach a trade agreementbefore Wednesday, when U.S. sanctions are due to take effect.No progress has yet been reported as the U.S. remains firm in its demand that Japan open its auto markets to American businesses. The Japanese still say their markets are open and that U.S. demands amount to little more than quotas. Any compromise will...
...shooting their victims through the knees or ankles. Those grisly crimes blended into the general backdrop of violence, causing only muted outrage. But the 100-plus punishment beatings administered since the cease-fire have become a major focus of attention. They raise doubts about the sincerity of the vow taken by both the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries to give up their violent ways. "This is still terrorism," says a social worker from West Belfast who deals with young people. "Only now they are terrorizing their own communities...
...other hand, questions my right as a non-heterosexual, non-male to the pursuit of happiness and a Harvard education. McGuire writes in another article that "marriage, properly understood, stands alone among human partnerships, for it begins not with a contract, dependent and rescindable, but with a vow, existential and transcendent," but then proceeds to say homosexuals may not marry or even experience the love of a partnership. It is particularly difficult on my Commencement Day to know that a speaker believes I should not even be sitting in Tercentenary Theatre that...
...obsessed by Florida," says a former senior official. In 1992 he campaigned there only once and spent no money on ads, but a switch of only 50,066 votes from Bush to Clinton would have won him the state. Clinton has been wooing Floridians with regular visits, a vow to protect Social Security and Medicare and old-fashioned political patronage, like the recent announcement of the move of the U.S. Southern Command's headquarters from Panama to south Dade County...
...player and the self-confidence to match -- has ventured into the operating room at the University of Minnesota Hospital to battle death. And more often than not, he has won. Patients he has saved can vividly recall the surge of hope they felt when Najarian gave them his simple vow...