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...more formidable obstacle: the Democrats have a 69-seat majority in the House, where there is strong sentiment to preserve domestic programs and hold the military to zero growth. Despite the willingness of Reagan and Regan to compromise with Senate Republicans, there are no signs that they will bend much further to satisfy House Democrats...
...black robes but fear the white man's power. They also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...
...small courtroom in Orange County, Calif., last week, Attorney Allen Millstone pointed sadly to his wheelchair-bound client. In 1983 James Higgins had been a vigorous young man of 18 when he went to Disneyland and took a ride on Space Mountain. As the roller coaster rounded a bend, the youth was suddenly thrown from the rocket car. Through Disney's negligence, argued Millstone, Higgins is a paraplegic. Twenty-four hundred miles away in Florida, in another Orange County courtroom, an equally sad story was unfolding. While Marietta and Harry Goode listened closely, Lawyer Philip Freidin recounted a tragic...
...conservative terms, but in terms of what we will tolerate from other human beings. South Africa, as did Nazi Germany, thrives on a fear and prejudice that its rulers have elevated to religious and mythic proportions. Such systems do not die or change easily, and they do not bend to want we like to believe are the subtle democratizing influences of capitalism. Today, we would not give a second thought to ridding ourselves of any connection with Nazi Germany, a regime that along with few others is startlingly similar to South Africa in 1985. Why, like a nation of Neville...
...color epitomized by the Miami firm Arquitectonica. The German-born Jahn, 45, an architect celebrated--some would say notorious--for his arch flourishes with high-tech elements, had applied some of the same ideas in his own earlier work, notably his 1982 First Source Center atrium in South Bend, Ind. Moreover, in such designs as his witty 1982 addition to the Chicago Board of Trade and his romantic Southwest Center, soon to rise in Houston, he has moved toward an ever more fanciful treatment of modernist themes...