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Instead of demanding a candidate with a vision, we might more sensibly appreciate some of the candidates under our noses who merely have plain old vision and who see clearly that no comprehensive view of America is likely to encompass its most troubling issues: the uses of wealth and power, the components of education, the poor, the homeless, the aged, the ill. We are at a point in this country where all the visions, liberal and conservative, have come and gone, and we are left standing among the quite specific and various problems that those visions either created or failed...
...believed to be stashed in bank accounts in Switzerland, Austria, West Germany and elsewhere. There is speculation too that the creditors could try to intercept the shipments of gold, worth about $27 million each, that Pyongyang sells each month through the London bullion market. Juche, in other words, could encompass even harder times ahead...
According to Dillon Professor of Internation Relations Joseph Nye, Bok's recommendations were designed to amend the rules "to encompass the whole person...
...said that although the Judicial Board doesnot encompass all of the desired characteristicsasked for by the student government, it offersseveral improvements over the CRR, includingregular meetings, more input for studentdefendants and delegates, and a wider jurisdictionthan actions resulting from political protest...
...roller-coaster ride," the Rev. Jim Bakker has often remarked. Through tumultuous financial ups and downs, the boyish-looking 47- year-old preacher has become a powerful czar of Christian entertainment. His enterprises encompass the PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) network, carried by cable TV to 13.5 million homes; a daily television talk show, broadcast on 178 stations; and the 2,300-acre Heritage USA at Fort Mill, S.C., America's splashiest Gospel-theme amusement park, which was visited by more than 6 million people last year. His projects, which also include a lavish hotel...