Word: generous
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...tribes. Three days after Ruhuna's death, military leader Major Pierre Buyoya lifted restrictions on the parliament and political parties. The constitution, however, remains suspended, and Buyoya is balking at talks with Hutu rebels. Meanwhile, Rome mourned the death of the man Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate a memorial service--or a funeral, if the corpse is recovered. That will probably never happen. The killers almost surely threw the archbishop's body into the nearby Mubarazi River...
DEBBIE STABENOW Democrat--Michigan 8th In one of the costliest races in the nation, Stabenow received generous support from the afl-cio, which ran television ads slamming G.O.P. incumbent Dick Chrysler...
JACK REED Democrat--Rhode Island The self-styled heir to retiring Senator Claiborne Pell, Reed used generous help from labor unions and lawyers to overwhelm Rhode Island Treasurer Nancy Mayer by 28 points...
Schmidt, on the other hand, knows his position: a 60-year-old retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope with his daughter Charlotte, a public relations executive who dissembles for tobacco companies and is engaged to Jon Riker, Schmidt's former protege at the firm of Wood & King...
...good news may be that this is all the gay bashers have left. Recognition of a near marriage equivalent--domestic partnerships--is now official at more than 450 U.S. corporations. Even the Coors Brewing Co.--long associated with a right-wing, antigay agenda thanks to Coors family members' generous support of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation--began offering gay partners the same benefits as spouses in 1995. Coors had previously been the target of boycotts by gay-rights groups, but claims it changed its policy simply because, in the words of spokesman Joe Fuentes, "Peter Coors [Joseph...