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...threatens to become indiscreet. His best friend, a heedless movie producer (Steve Martin), is permanently crippled in a mugging. His wife Claire (the luminous Mary McDonnell) discovers an abandoned baby on her morning run and, afflicted by empty-nest malaise (their son is growing up), begins a campaign to adopt the foundling. An earthquake thunders through town, a neighbor dies suddenly, and overhead the police helicopters endlessly circle, their probing searchlights constant reminders of disorder and imminent sorrow...
...designed to make Western Europe the world's biggest economic power, equipped to meet the American and Japanese challenge. But there are huge caveats. Most important, Britain demanded a separate "opt out" clause, under which its Parliament may vote later in the decade on whether or not to adopt the ECU. Moreover, only three countries currently meet the criteria. At a time when average E.C. unemployment is nearly 10%, belt tightening to achieve the rigid goals will hardly be popular...
...divided stance of the E.C. during the gulf war and its indecision about whether to send peacekeeping troops to Yugoslavia. E.C. President Jacques Delors, who had branded the Community's foreign policy apparatus "organized schizophrenia," called for streamlined decision-making procedures. But members shrugged off pressure from France to adopt majority voting, yielding to Britain's insistence that a unanimous poll serve as the only basis for important initiatives...
...candidates -- Buchanan initially opposed Bush's aggressive response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. He contended that U.S. security interests defined only in the most narrow sense warranted going to war. Meanwhile some Democrats are arguing that all could be made well at home if the U.S. would only adopt a more protectionist trade policy, shielding American firms from foreign competition...
Museums and other institutions have begun to adopt the celebrations. Last year more than 8,500 people attended poetry readings, music performances and puppet shows during the sixth annual observance at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian added a program of Kwanzaa activities to its Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations...