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...strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce a debilitating stalemate. The xenophobic far right could also make gains. Most worrisome, if Chirac's plans are thwarted, the country could fail to meet the economic criteria for founder membership in the European single-currency system in 1999. In that case, the future of European integration, the great project of the postwar era, could be fatally compromised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THIS A CROSSROADS--OR THE EDGE OF A CLIFF? | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...Roman Church's answer is annulment, whereby the Church says that the marriage never occurred. This is essentially fancy footwork around the morally disturbing problem that a marriage begun with good intentions can fail. (Here at Harvard we aren't very comfortable with the idea of failure either, since so many of us have very little experience with it.) There is a great hypocrisy in requiring annulment for remarriage within the Church, since powerful, well-connected people can obtain annulments even without any proof that no marriage ever existed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat's Divorce Ban Is Unrealistic | 12/9/1995 | See Source »

Although Parsons has been acknowledged for his work preserving the Yard during recent renovations, several architectural critics have charged that recent decisions by Harvard planners fail to take historical concern into account...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Union Changes Draw Criticism | 12/9/1995 | See Source »

...what doesn't as its priority? Harvard claims to serve both students and Cantabrigians alike, but the Harvard Corporation actually functions to profit at the expense of both communities. In conflicts between the interests of the University community and the Corporation, the administration sides with corporate interests almost without fail. While corporate concerns can be hidden in the relationship between the University and students, they become painfully evident in relations between the University and its workers and tenants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Ignores Student Input | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

...House. "It's not clear how much further Clinton can go," Carney says. "His budget is increasingly alienating congressional Democrats, and the President is fast approaching the familiar territory where he is satisfying nobody. But politically, the GOP, and especially the freshmen, have the most to lose if negotiations fail and they can't deliver on their big promise -- a balanced budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUNNING OUT OF TIME? | 12/8/1995 | See Source »

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