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...Democratic congressional leadership that was in bed with the S&L operators." More important, Black contends, the President will earn new respect for his efforts to negotiate a deficit-reduction compromise with Congress. Yet by a stark majority (60% to 34%), Americans think Bush was wrong to abandon his "no new taxes" pledge...
According to the Holy Koran, the world will end not through fire or flood but by earthquake. "The earthquake of the Hour of Doom is a terrible thing," reads the Koran. Mothers will abandon their babies. Humankind will totter as if in a drunken stupor. There is no escape. The earth will give up its secrets. All good will be revealed. And all evil...
...size and format in an effort to become more accessible and compete with proliferating local cable guides. Leslie Hinton, president of Murdoch Magazines, rejects speculation that foreign investors want out of the U.S. altogether. "Things go up and down," he says. "It would be pretty shortsighted of us to abandon the market right...
...condition for negotiations to arrange those elections. Said he: "There is nothing to discuss with those among the Palestinian Arabs who are opposed to autonomy." In Israel that is a code word for strictly limited self- government; the remark thus implied that Israel will talk only with Palestinians who abandon the idea of an eventual independent state. Any such condition would make it quite certain that no Palestinians would come to the bargaining table...
...inner city of Los Angeles, it's the parents who dream of seeing their kids leave and the children who refuse to abandon the old neighborhood. & Ginetta Robinson wants her 17-year-old son out of his gang and out of the house, even though the place he is likeliest to end up is jail. "I'd rather see him locked up than dead," she says. Ramona Penuelas, a housewife who immigrated to America in search of a better life, plans to take her 14-year- old son back to Mexico once he gets out of juvenile detention. Zuela Menjivar...