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...Foreign Relations GOP chair: Jesse Helms, North Carolina Democratic chair: Joseph Biden, Delaware Effect of change: Where to begin? Biden is no revolutionary, but his moderate-to-liberal policies will stand in stark contrast to Helms? isolationism...
...which was the worst of the recent crop of federal offenses, though the McVeigh blunder probably doesn't make the top five. Two weeks ago, officials from the Boston FBI field office were hauled before the House Committee on Government Reform to explain why they had allowed Joseph Salvati to spend 30 years in prison for a murder they knew he didn't commit, just to protect one of their informants. "The Federal Government determined that Joe Salvati's life was expendable," said his lawyer Victor Garo. Asked if he felt any remorse for what they had done to Salvati...
...parochial schools started returning. Then real estate agents began to drop mentions of Hand's achievements into their pitches about heated pools and tree-lined cul-de-sacs. Mary Lu Dalton, Hand's curriculum coordinator, switched her son from a Catholic school to Hand three years ago. "At St. Joseph's there was one black student in my child's whole school," says Dalton. "Here he's getting an education in different faiths and cultures. He's even been to two Bat Mitzvahs...
Having kids back to back might suit other needs too. Says Joseph Hagan, a committee chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics: "People put such a premium on getting birth spacing 'right,' but there are so many other factors in family planning--finances, work, the age of the mother--that couples might not want to wait the full two years...
Civilization, Joseph Conrad writes in Heart of Darkness, is “like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday...