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Fitzsimmons said the admissions staff has been working hard on diversity recruiting. This week's numbers are particularly promising since the office recognizes that students who choose early action have usually benefited from more individual counseling in their high schools--and are usually more affluent and more white...
...tough campaign. When he gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes, that fire will get him through the even tougher days and nights. For McCain, the challenge is not to prove he has the fire, but the opposite: that if he carries the McCain flame into the White House, it won't set the mansion ablaze...
Kaminer said the goal of putting women in office should be an end in itself and that supporters of programs like the White House Project continue to further the stereotype that ideology is determined by gender, she said...
What is Madeleine Albright thinking? On Friday, an anonymous source told the New York Times that the secretary of state has offered to "be the lightning rod for criticism" if the White House agrees to compromise on a deal to pay $1 billion in back dues the U.S. owes the United Nations. Negotiations have been stalled for months: House Conservatives won't release the cash unless the White House agrees to a ban on U.S. funding of all programs that promote abortion rights. Clinton's acceptance of the conservatives' language - allowing himself the loophole of executive waivers for specific cases...
...this point, it's hard to tell. "It certainly would be convenient for the nonpolitical side of the administration to take the heat for a decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House to compromise on abortion rights will probably raise some hackles. But for Clinton, it may be worth weathering some ire if he can walk away from this debate - and his presidency - with something resembling a win on foreign policy...