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Le Figaro also envisaged the partition of Kosovo as the undesired outcome of the war, with Albania getting the inhospitable mountains and Serbia the fertile plain, and it blamed Europe for letting Washington call the shots by failing to take responsibility for its own security.
Certainly Dole was a weak candidate, as was Mondale, as was Dukakis, and as was Bush, both when he won in 1988 and when he lost in 1992 (his speechwriter, one Tony Snow, failing to extricate him from his own verbal briar patch).
USAT 's Y2K/health care story is hooked to Senate hearings to be held today on such problems as: crashing computers wiping out medical records, intravenous feeders and dialysis machines going haywire, and back-up generators failing.
The less ambitious plan being discussed focuses mainly on ways to help the banks resolve bad loans, the more ambitious, which the Post says the U.S. is pushing, focuses on closing failing banks.
This year,147 students in the Houston Independent School District qualify to opt out of failing public schools under this program.