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...invective flew, the negotiators continued to meet far into the night in House Speaker Tom Foley's conference room. The "Gang of Eight," three from the Administration and five from the Hill, inched forward by discussing a compromise that would include a modest variation on the capital- gains scheme: instead of a cut in the rates, the value of assets sold would be indexed so that profits resulting from inflation would be exempt from taxation...
Tufts' student director Sharon Cinnamon says that "all campus shows are cast with a policy of no discrimination." She is currently directing a version of West Side Story with women actors playing the parts of gang members in both the Sharks and the Jets...
...never errs on the side of niceness is Patrick Buchanan, a former aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan. He earns a reported $500,000 a year from a column in 180 newspapers, lectures and daily TV exposure on CNN's Crossfire and the syndicated McLaughlin Group and Capital Gang. Blending unyielding right-wing views with incendiary rhetoric, he stirs deep passions. Last week Buchanan was teetering on the tightrope. His latest outbursts had even longtime allies accusing him of virtual or actual anti-Semitism...
...government was leery about charging her. Officials said privately they would not do so until they had an ironclad case. The national antiapartheid coalition did not hesitate, though. In February 1989, leaders of the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions blamed Mandela for her gang's "reign of terror" and called on activists to shun...
...able to talk at least. But they mostly shout and mumble in this story of a young man (Sean Penn) who returns to the Kitchen to find himself in a fatal family dispute involving his best friend (Gary Oldman), his old girlfriend (ravishing Robin Wright) and her gang-boss brother (Ed Harris). In State of Grace, the Irish are Italians without style. As one of them says, "We drink. We shoot people. We're not tough; we're just crazy." The film wants to be tough too, but it more often sulks. The look is off-the-rack broody: many...