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...Illinois couple is among the legion of determined Americans who are struggling against all odds to buy their first home. But now, as the spring house-hunting season approaches, some help may be on the way. Everyone from builders to bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture...
...Orchestre de Paris, he built a major international reputation and branched out to top assignments in the opera world. A year and a half ago, he won the powerful job of artistic director at the still uncompleted Opera de la Bastille. In September the grateful government awarded him the Legion of Honor. But now Barenboim's luck has turned. While President Francois Mitterrand kept silent, he was summarily fired -- and just as summarily vowed to sue. He denounced the "lies, half- truths, bad faith and especially the incompetence of those in charge...
Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings. They are expected to go his way, despite a legion of ruffled academics left from his 3 1/2 iconoclastic years at Education. He suggested, among other things, that tony universities were not giving students their big money's worth...
Mississippi Burning is rooted as firmly in film history as it is in social history. It takes its cue not so much from the buddy films as from Warner Bros. melodramas of the '30s, like Black Legion and They Won't Forget, which seized some social-issue headlines and fit them into brisk, dynamic fiction. % It is movie journalism: tabloid with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn...
...decade too often marked by selfishness and greed, a growing legion of & "Samaritans" is devoting time, energy and imagination to aiding others. -- Tight airline security measures go into effect as the hunt for the bombers of Pan Am Flight 103 begins...