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...intent and substance, urged the President last week to call the four legislators to the White House to hammer out a compromise. No one expects that to happen, however, since the Treasury Department will be pushing its own plan. Beyond that, even the seemingly minor differences in the bills loom very large when viewed from the perspective of those who would be hurt. The tax credit for new investments, for example, is worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they see it as vital to a sustained recovery and would wage a fierce fight to keep it. Business also...
Ecumenical complications also loom large, a fact that worries Archbishop Runcie. Since 1970, Anglicans and Roman Catholics have been discussing reunification, while for decades Anglicans and Orthodox churches have also discussed closer ties. But in 1975, the Vatican, forewarning the Anglicans in effect, declared that the all-male priesthood was "an unbroken tradition" that is "based on Christ's example" and "considered to conform to God's plan for his church." If those words allow any leeway, the Eastern Orthodox Church allows none, holding that priesthood for women is impossible. The result: while one long-sought liberal reform...
Whether Tlas is to be believed or not, Rifaat, 47, had made no secret of his ambition to succeed Hafez, 54, as President. That possibility seemed to loom larger last November, when the elder Assad suffered a serious heart attack. After Assad's recovery, Rifaat's elevation in February to the new, three-man vice presidency was seen as part of an attempt to hem in his power...
...smoldering menace, a dandy in smirking repose-until, one day, he scans some scribbled Mozart sheet music, and tears of astonishment and fury course down his cheeks. Says Abraham, who has played in everything from Shakespeare to Scarface to a leotarded leaf in the Fruit of the Loom TV spots: "Salieri is a figure tragic in Greek proportions because he enters into a competition with God." Forman says he chose these two off Broadway journeymen over stars, or over actors who had performed in the play, because "I wanted to believe that this person is Mozart, is Salieri, not just...
...implications of the decision for the criminal justice system loom large indeed. Not only is there no proof that a more narrow application of the exclusionary rule will yield more valid prosecutions, but such cost-benefits, analysis focuses excessively on the short-term pros and cons of laws--rather than the long-range impact of such a major change in this country's governing document...