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...Democrats won't have long to make their case. Having seen the talking-to-death that brought down Clinton's health-care reform, Gingrich adroitly withheld his plan until the last minute, then provided only a few days for Democrats to counterattack. When House Republicans wouldn't budge on their insistence that there would be just one day of hearings on the Medicare proposal, Democratic frustrations hit the boiling point. Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida, who was Ways and Means Committee chairman until last year's Republican landslide, called it "a deliberate plot to put their program over before...
Almost unnoticed, however, the deficiencies began to tell when Milosevic, looking for a negotiated solution, withheld his political and material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point...
Names of the victim and alleged attackers are being withheld because they are all minors, according to Harshbarger's office...
...American women are the healthiest, most coddled, most protected women on the planet," Zubaty said. "They are not expected to fight in wars, mine coal, pour asphalt, or lay bricks. Women receive welfare benefits that are withheld from men. Women are an exalted majority, not a victimized minority...
...detailed review of 8,000 pages of internal documents from Brown & Williamson, the third largest U.S. tobacco company. The memos and reports, going back 30 years, show that company officials privately called nicotine an addictive drug while publicly insisting it was a flavor enhancer, and that the firm withheld research showing that tobacco can cause cancer...