Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Courter won the primary, he appeared to modify his position," admits John Tomicki, executive director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee. "We believe he was uncomfortable with the issue." Kathryn Kolbert, an attorney for the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project, puts it more bluntly. "He's just done a total backpedal," she says. "He's read the polls...
...just like the Democrats in Congress," White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater recently lectured a reporter. "You think Government isn't doing anything unless it's taxing and spending and creating new bureaucracies." Yet the Government does still spend mightily where it has a mind to. The Pentagon has done some tactical trimming but remains the biggest Government consumer of all. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is determined to retain as much as possible of the $2.4 trillion Reagan-era buildup -- including a scaled-down Star Wars program, at about $4 billion; the B-2 bomber, at $535 million each...
...that the modern screen has offered. The gradual stripping away of false issues between the brothers (Why is Jack always late for gigs? Why does Frank fuss so much about his bald spot?) as they get down to the true ones (involving, naturally, their childhood and piano lessons) is done with similar subtlety. Kloves' delicacy as a writer is, moreover, matched by his restraint as a director. It would have been easy to patronize or satirize the less than fabulous milieu of The Fabulous Baker Boys. Instead he and his fine cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, have created a gently dislocating noirish...
...Bush will have to hesitate before pulling the trigger. In pursuit of Noriega's demise, we may impose sanctions to wreck Panama's economy (as we have done), we may support a coup, we may even rain bombs on Panama City (though no one is suggesting that). The one thing we cannot do is take him out on purpose. Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made...
What the assassination ban amounts to in practice is a rule against killing people whose names you know. Killing anonymous soldiers or even civilians is merely war. C'est la guerre. Killing someone with a name attached is assassination. Not done, old chap...