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...most respects, Clinton has nothing on his predecessors in this regard. Backing off on his promise to cut the White House staff 25% (which he appears to be doing), or asserting his highest regard for Washington's public schools while enrolling his daughter in a private academy, is small-bore stuff -- par for the course and unremarkable. But Clinton is breaking new ground when it comes to the deficit. The President-elect's insistence that the latest debt numbers are news to him -- that he is a victim whose best intentions may fall before a new reality -- is chutzpah writ...
...holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created. For the movie's fans, this is a sad waste; for others, a crashing bore...
...connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
...earth that it compels thoughts of eternity. After decades of officially sponsored atheism, the Russians remain a profoundly spiritual people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade by U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, large crowds stood...
...Beanpot tournament, Coach John Dooley and the Crimson hope to recover from the loss of four of the team's top six scorers. Two of those four, in particular, were major losses: Sandra Whyte (21 goals-18 assists-39 points) and Jen Minkus (8-14-22) bore much of the scoring load last year...