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That's why, when Clinton finally laid out his plan from a podium at the National Geographic Society in Washington, so many people recoiled in dismay. The proposal Clinton described as "far-reaching" and "meaningful" would supposedly roll back U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to where they were in 1990, but would not do so until sometime between 11 and 16 years from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates...
Another unhappy citizen of TV land is Della Reese. The co-star of Touched by an Angel held a press conference to convey her dismay at the size of her raise compared with her co-stars'. She asked fans to contact CBS president Leslie Moonves--"Write him, call him, catch him by his car." CBS says it's "puzzled by her comments" and notes that it reduced her work hours at her request. Incidentally, Reese's book, Angels Along the Way, is out this week...
...have editors work more closely with the advertising side to goose circulation and revenues. That blurs the age-old separation between reporters with tough stories to tell and admen selling space to companies the paper covers. Last week three senior business executives took on new editorial responsibilities, to the dismay of traditionalists in the newsroom...
...Woodham was charged with the murders of his mother and two classmates, his hometown went into deep mourning, stunned at the rampage. But was it just the work of one man? Last week a second tale wrapped itself around the first, to the greater dismay of Pearl. Six friends of Woodham's were arrested on Oct. 7 on murder-conspiracy charges. Two of the suspects, Donald Brooks II, 17, and Marshall ("Grant") Boyette Jr., 18, were accused of plotting to murder Brooks' father, a local fire fighter. The police gave no reasons for that subplot, and after his father pleaded...
Many women, nevertheless, have come to the support of the Promise Keepers. Perhaps to Patricia Ireland's dismay, Hillary Clinton, while cautious about its leadership, has praised the Promise Keepers in her book It Takes a Village. And at a Sept. 16 press conference, a group of conservative women from mainline Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches denounced NOW for its attack on the Promise Keepers and decried the negative impact of what they described as "radical feminism" on church and society. "We believe that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation...