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Seventy-three-year-old superstars are rare. Seventy-three-year-old superstars who can draw tens of thousands of youngsters from 70 countries to a jamboree in Denver are rarer still. But not even a Rocky Mountain rainstorm could drown out the welcome for Pope John Paul II as he landed at Stapleton International Airport last week. "John Paul Two, we love you!" shouted the crowd. "America, you are beautiful," responded the Pontiff...
...business growth, we cannot succeed as a country," he said in a hurriedly arranged appearance before a group of small-company executives. His message did little to silence their gripes, most notably the complaint that provisions in the House and Senate tax bills designed to soak the rich will drown small enterprises. That is because about 80% of businesses in the U.S. pay taxes at the same rate as individuals rather than corporations. While big companies will see their income taxes rise just 1 percentage point, from 34% to 35%, prosperous small firms assessed at the individual rate will...
...potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that he is prey for the scrawniest bully. His gross grandfather (Julien Guiomar) has tried to drown Leo, who can't wait to return the favor...
...President makes a sound case that America's budgetary red ink in the long run will drown all hope of economic progress. To about 230 businessmen invited last Wednesday to the White House, Clinton gave some dire predictions about the U.S. "Ten years from now, if we don't change present policies": budget deficits exceeding $650 billion a year, or more than double even today's bloated figures; and a national debt equal to 78% of the country's total output of goods and services. But to many people that might seem a rather dry statistical apocalypse and not exactly...
...When you get a government position like this one, it's like drinking from a fire hose," Nye said. "There's a gush of information and right now I'm trying not to drown...