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...multimillion-acre tracts. The report charges that Clark continues to parcel the shelf in enormous chunks, overriding warnings of an undesirable environmental impact. Clark has postponed a decision on a critical 37 million-acre patch of land off the California coast until after the election, which the environmentalists interpret as a sign that he plans to lease the parcel when it is politically safe. (Clark insists that he is bound by a congressional moratorium until at least...
...asked him to sign the drawings just to be sure everyone understood what would happen. I assumed he was an architect and could interpret the plans." Doyle says. At least half a dozen meetings with a commission's subcommittee also support his claim that he was upfront with the city officials...
...religious community sees the Moon case as a strong indication that the government plans to interpret those 16 words as narrowly as possible, allowing churches free exercise only if they meet government standards. Harvey G. Cox Jr., Harvard's Thomas Professor of Divinity, voices a common concern when he notes the implications of the IRS having a say in how religions disburse their funds: "One can imagine in a future generation a politicized IRS deciding that the Catholic Church shouldn't speak out against nuclear war. Or anything else--there's no limit...
...Supreme Court was last a major election issue when Richard Nixon campaigned against the activist Warren Court in 1968, vowing to appoint Justices who would "interpret the Constitution strictly." Within three years, Nixon had four openings to fill, including that of Chief Justice (Warren stepped down at age 77 in 1969). Pundits proclaimed a "Nixon Court" under Burger, the new Chief Justice, and waited for a veer to the right...
...awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning of his work. Eco did talk about the pressures of fame and fortune. "I used to think that financial success would enable me to pursue my interests more," explained Eco. "The exact opposite has happened. It's quite a paradox...