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...Michael Jordan vs. Himself The wonder warrior led his Chicago Bulls to a three-peat N.B.A. title. He conquered Madison Avenue with his megawatt smile. He battled the press over inquiries into his high-stakes gambling. But after his father's murder this summer, Jordan decided he'd had enough of fighting. His retirement stunned the hoop world and left a vacancy for the top spot in sport stardom...
...scandals will dog the President? Perhaps not the sexual imbroglio -- Americans knew Clinton had sinned but elected him anyway. Says William E. Leuchtenburg, professor of history at the University of North Carolina: ''It's one question if this sort of thing arises during a campaign, and we have to wonder what sort of President this person will be. It's another thing entirely now that he's President, and we know the job he's doing.'' However, the financial morass surrounding Madison Guaranty may be considered far more pertinent because it shows how Clinton runs a government. And in Little...
...feet away. While anything that stands in the path of Fair Harvard’s construction tends to bite the dust, these two houses were redeemed due to their apparent historic significance to the city of Cambridge. Graduate housing is slated to replace them in 2007. Leverett residents wonder why the gray and blue buildings were protected; even Harvard’s Construction Mitigation Manager Ed Leflore would have preferred demolition over preservation. “We’d prefer not to move it—it’s easier to just stick a big bulldozer in there...
...democracy,” hawkish military coups intervened thrice in less than 50 years every time constituents voted against laiklik (Kemal’s policies of absolute secularism), each time proclaiming the creation of a “guided democracy.” It’s no wonder, then, that an increasing number of people in Turkey fear that admission policies from the EU will further erode their true identity.The recognition of incompatibility today can save us from grave problems tomorrow. As the examples of recent EU additions Poland and Lithuania demonstrate, policies leading to EU admission...
...begun making speeches against the Governor, and while Beatty tells TIME he doesn't particularly want to run for office, he won't rule it out. "I don't think any good citizen should take that off the table," he said, adding, "I am flattered by the question." Wonder if Arnie can still remember that feeling...