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...basic answer was easy: Murphy Brown does not exist. She is the TV character played by Candice Bergen. Murphy is a blond media anchor-goddess and wiseguy and now a defiantly unmarried madonna. In last week's episode she delivered a baby boy -- the boy being played by a seven-week-old girl named Danica Fascella. (A perfect Murphy Brown, post-Quayle touch: Danica and her twin Cynthia were conceived in vitro and carried to term by a surrogate mother.) In triumphant autonomy, Murphy will raise the child as a single parent...
Some favorite conservative nostrums would actually cost plenty, such as privatizing public housing or changing current welfare rules that penalize people for taking a job, saving money or keeping their families intact. But conservatives usually pretend the cost doesn't exist. It isn't recalcitrant liberals standing in the way of such reforms. It is a national reluctance to spend the money nurtured by conservatives themselves...
...weekends and saint's days. But when Jeff, Russell's star first novelist, arrives at a bash with a 19-year-old model and a heroin habit, eyebrows are raised. Middle age is still a laughable rumor, but in a distant and abstract way, doom is understood to exist...
...this is happening, of course, because the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. In place of the devil we knew is a threat represented on the briefers' charts by an eerie phrase: THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNCERTAIN. Instead of preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that...
SNOOZING M.P.S PERKED UP WHEN BRITISH PRIME Minister John Major made an unexpected disclosure last week. During a parliamentary speech, Major declared the existence of MI6, Britain's international espionage agency. Although volumes have been written about the 83-year-old spy ring, bureaucrats have always maintained the polite pretense that the organization didn't exist. Major also named Sir Colin McColl as the division's long-standing head. Britain's Who's Who currently lists the MI6 chief as a counsellor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who enjoys cycling, tennis and the classics...