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...asking, "Are you going to arrest ((the French Communist leader Maurice)) Thorez?" Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts." At that time the Communist Party in France was large and powerful enough to have real political influence. It also had arms caches from...
Neil Bush may be the Velcro that Democrats have needed to attach blame for the S&L debacle to the President. Despite being in charge when the multibillion-dollar casino was opened, Republicans have been feigning shock -- shock! -- that any gambling was going on at all. The Administration has belatedly been making a great show of prosecuting the most egregious offenders. Just last week the government charged high-profile Dallas thrift owner Edwin McBirney III with 17 counts of bank fraud. Cleaning up the mess at his Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas, which was taken over by regulators...
...over the middle. NARAL's Michelman is determined to convince the public that parental-consent laws are a sham. Pro-life and pro-choice forces in Congress pledge to wage the fight over funds for rape and incest victims again and again, every time Boxer or her allies attach a rider to a bill. "We'll debate this till we're blue in the face, and there will be blood all over the chamber," says Hyde. And despite the defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in Idaho, and perhaps Louisiana, the pro-life lobby will continue to press...
...have observed, can set the stage for other illnesses or intensify existing ones. It is no surprise that so many patients who learn that they have cancer or heart disease -- or any other catastrophic disease -- become worse at the time of diagnosis. The moment they have a label to attach to their symptoms, the illness deepens. All the terrible things they have heard about disease produce the kind of despair that in turn complicates the underlying condition. It is not unnatural to be severely apprehensive about a serious diagnosis, but a reasonable confidence is justified. Cancer today, for example...
...Harvard's current affirmative actiongoals...say that over the next 10 years they'llincrease the number of tenured women faculty by 56percent," said Schmertzler. "Indeed, a wonderfulsounding goal, but if you attach that to thecurrent 7.5 percent women faculty, it means anincrease of about 4 percent...