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...send their 13-year-old daughter Chelsea to a private school, they failed to accompany the announcement with any challenge to public schools or teachers' unions to make themselves more competitive. On the contrary: Clinton's designated Education Secretary vowed that the President-elect opposed a pilot program to extend to lower- and middle-income families the choice of private schools that the Clintons enjoy. "One is left wondering," said a Clinton adviser, "when and where the 'change' is coming from...
...minutes pass, then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...recent years, Harvard has not had much luck playing in the hockeycrazed region of the North Country, where sticks, pucks and pads, constitute a way of life. But this season, the Crimson carries a six-game winning streak into upstate New York and could very well extend its seven-point lead in the race for the league title...
...long as our species behaves like a spoiled only child, allowing parochial economic, political and leisure appetites to define the landscape, nature will deny us the thing we crave most -- a sense of belonging. To extend Groucho Marx's line, we would not join any club that would have us. Rarely accorded a standing of its own, nature is forever cast in anthropocentric terms, reduced to a prize in the simplistic consume-or-conserve debate. There is nature as the winsome obstacle to development, as the romanticist's favored tableau, even as the butt of ridicule by sophisticates who fault...
Foreign policy has leapfrogged to the top. In Somalia, the Marines are moving more slowly than expected to extend their security zone. Relief workers in the hinterlands are clamoring for rescue from attacks by armed gangs. At the U.N., Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made new demands on the U.S., insisting that American troops remain in Somalia until they have disarmed the warring clans and restored some central authority. And in Brussels, the NATO allies are looking once again at the possibility of using armed force against Serbian aggressors in the remnants of Yugoslavia...