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...spots that were made by the collisions will undoubtedly blow away eventually -- though no one knows how long it will take -- but it's much too soon to tell whether there will be any permanent changes in Jupiter. There is still every chance that the impacts, especially from the four fragments that hit in nearly the same place last Wednesday and Thursday, will destabilize the atmosphere and create a new, permanent cyclone like Jupiter's Great Red Spot...
...double blow to Disney management comes at a time when the company is wrestling with several nagging problems. The biggest is its theme parks, which account for 40% of the company's gross revenues. The Euro Disney park outside Paris, for instance, was losing so much money ($900 million in its first year alone) that it had to be rescued by a Saudi prince who agreed to invest $400 million in new equity. Even so, penny-pinching guests are still skimping on food, hotel rooms and merchandise, which is slowing Disney's plans in the area for offices, shopping centers...
More depressing for many seasoned prosecutors is the mounting sense that Simpson has a good chance of walking free. They regard the addition of Johnnie Cochran to the defense team as a major blow. "It's going to be all these white people up there against O.J. and Cochran," says a deputy district attorney. "This is a downtown jury and there are going to be a number of black people on it." Last week a number of senior deputy D.A.s gathered socially, and the talk invariably turned to the Simpson case. An air of resignation immediately overwhelmed the room...
...attorney for his surrender. This isn't the first embarrassment for the new government of Prime Minister Berlusconi, who himself has been trying to soften his party's ultranationalist edges. In a country plagued by political and financial scandal, will this latest news tarnish the Teflon PM? "The big blow is in terms of image," says TIME Rome reporter Greg Burke. "What's the difference between Berlusconi's business and his brother's? Not much...
...last week, as variations on the Clinton plan started heading toward compromise in Congress, the church dealt the process a sharp blow. Noting that three of the health-care plans emerging from committees listed abortion as part of a standard-benefits package, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops sadly but unanimously vowed to mount a grass-roots campaign against the final product if it followed suit. That announcement bred others: 72 members of Congress said they would have difficulty voting for any bill that doesn't include abortion as a benefit. Thirty-five others responded by making public a threat...