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Perry, who is also anattorney, is survived byhis wife Carol and their two children...
...protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after the minister's name turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker...
...have not been able to keep up with regular maintenance and, as a result, public concern is growing that "some school buildings may be unsafe or even harmful to children's health." As an example, schools need $11 billion just for lead abatement that complies with federal standards. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) requested the GAO study and sponsored legislation authorizing $100 million for school repairs in the 1996 fiscal year...
Travel agents said last week that few passengers were canceling flights, despite their increased anxiety. Said Chicago travel agent Carol Peters: "A lot of people see these things as acts of God." But the Rev. John Peter Pham, a Catholic priest flying from Chicago to Peoria, disagreed: "I would object to blaming God for plane crashes when they are really due to human error or some other negligence...
...Ford's Theater, not far from Capitol Hill, a stage version of A Christmas Carol is playing this week. When a delegation of Londoners comes calling at Scrooge's office seeking alms for the poor, literature's best-known misanthrope shoots back his famous retort: Are there no prisons? No workhouses? No orphanages? On some nights the line, with its obvious echo of the latest ideas from Congress, has been bringing gasps and mutters from the crowd. In the months to come, Scrooge is a role Gingrich and his followers won't be afraid to assume. The only question...