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Yes, crime is down, fewer people are on welfare, and school reform is gaining momentum.
The NYT succinctly explains why the Lott plan is gaining ground in the Senate: it gives the Senate an opportunity to avoid a long trial, while at the same time affording senators some kind of vote on Clinton's impeachment.
In view of earlier attacks on the ETS, I would have been interested in knowing if Lemann had any problems in gaining such full access to ETS archives.
Others given victor's laurels included NATO, described by the London Observer as having "saved its reputation and credibility, gaining time to improve its effectiveness as a guarantor of peace"; and the new world order celebrated in Andrew Marr's column in the Observer , "What has happened is a decisive and perhaps terminal defeat for an older Europe, a place of tribal hatreds, double-headed eagles, flaming swords and obscure martyrs.
The Nasdaq index fell 5.6 percent (after gaining 86 percent in 1999) and the Dow fell 3.2 percent (after gaining 25 in '99).