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...scandal, say some in Washington, serves as an overdue wake-up call for the U.S. government -- a notice that the benign esteem in which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with Russia that would be without clouds," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The simpleminded confidence that Yeltsin is a good guy is naive...
...another attempted wake-up call, Jackson is talking about an independent candidacy that could have the same electoral effect -- Clinton's defeat. "It's like where I was 20 years ago," says Jackson, referring to his almost candidacy in 1972. Back then Jackson said, "I don't trust white Republicans or white Democrats; I want a black party." He's too clever to echo those inflammatory words today, but his meaning is the same. "To get respect, we've got to be free agents," he says. "We won't be taken for granted" -- which means that Jackson himself wants...
Until now Tomball has suffered only the occasional property crime. "This is a wake-up call for anyone in Tomball who may have got complacent about living here," says police chief Paul Michna. "Nowhere is safe." Since Stallones was found, some of the town's elderly citizens have asked to move in with their children. Stallones' former daughter-in-law, Kerri Harrington, has barely slept since learning of the murder. "Before, I felt safe," she says. "Now I know this horrible crime could happen anywhere to anyone...
...will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer's similar Newton model and Motorola's Dragon. To celebrate, Warwick gave the team that developed the Hobbit a symbolic gift: a desk clock. "It was to remind us that we received our wake-up call," he says...
This column is intended as a wake-up call for Americans who believe that our national debt will be lower after Clinton's first term. Until recently, I was one of those people. With all the calls for sacrifice, it seems that many of us have slipped into the belief that the country is finally tackling the debt...