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Fired two weeks ago, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont promised to go quietly. But the ousted official couldn't resist a 20-minute harangue in the House of Commons. As a stony-faced Prime Minister John Major listened, Lamont charged that without more clearly defined goals, his party's government "will not survive and will not deserve to survive." The last time an ex-Exchequer Chancellor (Geoffrey Howe) attacked the boss (Margaret Thatcher), the government did indeed fall...
Jerry Falwell sits in the chancellor's office of Liberty University, his school in Lynchburg, Virginia, and describes his abhorrence of RU 486. The host of the Old Time Gospel Hour on 200 television stations, he still has the contacts and much of the clout that he enjoyed in his Moral Majority days. He compares unprotesting acceptance of the new drug to the German churches' inaction during the Holocaust: "We can't make that mistake again," he says. "Morally we will have no recourse except to do whatever is available...
British Prime Minister John Major fired his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, and shuffled other ministers in an effort to recapture public confidence. Lamont was blamed for driving down the value of the pound...
...politically explosive. This week the results are expected to be announced in an unusually bitter election for New York City community school boards in which the religious right joined with the Catholic Church to try to elect more tradition-minded representatives. Earlier this year, the system's highly regarded Chancellor Joseph Fernandez was ousted largely because of his effort to expand condom distribution and teach children about gay life-styles. The New York City Board of Education last week chose as its new president a conservative Queens mother who had cast the deciding vote against the chancellor...
Schools must adjust to our changing society in order to be effective, said outgoing New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez yesterday at the Graduate School of Education...