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...meet existing weight limits of our chief competitors. We are proud of our 300,000 employees and will go to great lengths to create a safe work environment for our people. We also stand firmly behind our position that OSHA is sorely in need of reform. KENT C. NELSON, Chairman and CEO United Parcel Service Atlanta
...first, nor will it be the last, country to brutalize innocent students. Both Taiwan and South Korea, America's biggest allies in East Asia, have done it in more or less the same manner. Even America itself has done it--do we need to be reminded of the Kent State student slayings? The very reason for this bad luck lies in the lack of wide support in society. Historian Leonard Kreiger notes that "the protagonists of individual liberty are primarily intellectuals." In such a big and poor country as China where the educated class comprises only a minority, what...
Movies: City HallAl Pacino plays fictitious New York Mayor John Pappas as the tornado at the center of "City Hall", a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor, Kent Calhoun (John Cusack). Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME...
...hell out of Hanoi next Christmas, using large bombers instead of strategic fighters to insure maximum civillian casualties. She would have to expose an almost inhuman lack of compassion by attempting to justify the slaughter of unarmed, non-violent students by the National Guard, as Nixon did after the Kent State massacre...
...PUCCINI La Boheme (Erato). Conductor Kent Nagano restores the freshness and bloom to Puccini's heart-tugging tale of young love won and lost. Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa as Mimi and tenor Richard Leech as Rodolfo are with him every step...