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...different portrait of the likable young Bush emerges from TIME interviews with former Silverado executives and real estate developers with whom the S&L had cozy and possibly illegal dealings. Citing Bush's M.B.A. from Tulane University, Denver insiders contend that he had to be aware of his own vulnerability to the go-go bankers and developers with whom he dealt. More significantly, they insist that Bush did not fall innocently into the clutches of the shrewd operators. Bush, they say, was as enthusiastic as Denver's highflyers in arranging their financing of his upstart JNB oil company, which...
...entitle her to live out her final days in a quiet, dignified fashion. But circumstances conspire against graceful surrender. Separated by an ocean from her only child, she has no one to provide the solace and daughterly ministrations she longs for. At the same time, she is forced to contend with the racial cancer that is eating the society that surrounds her, stripping even its youngest members of their capacity to care, feel or abide by the most basic rules of human decency...
...absorbing excess rubles from the Soviet economy by selling back state-owned assets to the public. In addition, Gorbachev last week raised the idea of devaluing the official exchange rate for the ruble, from $1.66 all the way down to 50 cents. Economists for the Gorbachev-Yeltsin commission contend that once sufficient amounts of money have been pulled out of circulation, prices can be liberalized, since real market forces will operate to keep them stable. Unlike the Poles, argues Gorbachev economic adviser Nikolai Petrakov, "Soviet citizens would rather stand in long lines than confront a rise in prices...
Church officials say Sipe's figures are much too high, arguing that his findings are skewed because half the priests in his study were already in therapy. Most priests successfully channel their sexual feelings into love for their congregations, they contend. "This can provide a type of fulfillment, just as married men and women achieve fulfillment," says Father Peter Dora of the Atlanta archdiocese. But officials acknowledge that the Catholic hierarchy is increasingly concerned about sexually straying priests...
While Gaviria's move is at least partly attributable to his frustration over what he sees as a lack of support from Washington, some U.S. officials contend that the President's action is also a psychological master-stroke. They say the decree has the dual effect of moderating an unpopular policy and sowing doubt among the narcotraffickers, who will be forced to wonder who among them has been cooperating with the government...