Word: john
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...hated decision. Now, with George Bush's capture of the presidency, many believe victory is almost at hand. "I think we see the end of the tunnel and the demise of Roe v. Wade," proclaims Clarke Forsythe, legal director of Americans United for Life. With the Republican win, insists John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
Every schoolboy knows the one about the con man trying to sell a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge. But two New Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the bridge and flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That...
...Associated Press show that the top vote getter was Libertarian Ron Paul with 409,412, followed by the New Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide. Trailing the pack: Third World Assembly nominee John Martin with 229 votes. Despite his low tally, Paul insists, "we don't get discouraged. The only thing that counts is whether what we say is true." All told, the minor-party candidates collected only 0.9% of the vote, a bit better than the 0.7% they garnered...
...years ago, journalist John Fraser and photographer Eve Arnold undertook to cover a season (1986-87) with the American Ballet Theatre: the rehearsals, the tour, the filming of the Herbert Ross movie Dancers in Italy. Their achievement is that they manage to animate the dailiness of backstage life from the point of view of both the artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies...
...just emerged from the most emotional and vituperative election campaign in Canadian memory -- a battle that at one point it seemed he might lose. Mulroney's Conservatives were returned to power, taking 169 seats in the 295-seat House of Commons. The opposition Liberals, led by former Prime Minister John Turner, 59, won 83 seats, while the New Democrats, under Edward Broadbent, 52, gained...