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...resident of the Pit. He does, however, pass through it several times a week between his workplace in the square and his pad. There, he makes self-confessed terrible music with similarly soft-spoken, sensitively-slanted friends. Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" was the first song to make a dent in his consciousness, but the Backstreet Boys haunt him now as the curdle of the pop crop. He won't admit it, but Brad knows...
Ever since the passage of Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights activists have feared that abortion opponents, by chipping away at federal law, could eventually succeed in having abortions classified as murders. But this bill, says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, is unlikely to create much of a dent. "I very much doubt that this bill will pass," he says, "and even if it did, it would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court, since it flies in the face of the court?s existing stand on reproductive rights." If defeat is almost guaranteed, what?s in this campaign...
Just how long the populist movement can sustain its economic growth is a matter for debate. Sales have increased for three years running, with Kinkade's popularity the driving force. But Kinkade has yet to make a significant dent on the East Coast, and his harshest critics may be on Wall Street. While sales have held steady, Media Arts' stock price dropped more than 60% since the beginning of the year over concerns that interest may have peaked. Says Shawn Milne, an analyst at Hambrecht & Quist: "This thing came raging out of the gate, and they're not crushing numbers...
Fortunately for Boris Yeltsin, tales of corruption are a big yawn in Moscow. An Italian newspaper on Thursday accused Russia?s president of taking bribes, while USA Today alleges that he presided over a $15 billion money laundering scheme. But the allegations are unlikely to dent Yeltsin?s already negligible popularity. "The Russian people are suffering scandal burnout," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Some of these allegations have long been aired in the Russian press ? although they?re dismissed by the Kremlin. Charges of corruption at the highest level don?t have much shock value in this country...
...could go on to high school. Of 172 students, three-quarters flunked. After realizing the impracticality of flunking so many (and withstanding a shower of complaints from furious parents), the school board put off its promotion plan for another year. Chicago's policy, meanwhile, has failed to put a dent in the city's number of poorly performing students. Last month school officials said that 30,424 third-, sixth- and eighth-graders failed to score well enough this year to avoid summer school--an increase of 10% over last year...