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...political mess is another man's teaching aid. As Joseph P. Kennedy II suffered the fallout of his annulment, Father Michael Smith Foster, associate judicial vicar with the court that awarded it, took the opportunity to pen an article for the local Catholic newspaper, the Pilot, in which he addressed 13 "misconceptions" about the practice. No. 4: "Declarations [of nullity] render children illegitimate." This is simply not the case, Foster explained. No. 2: "Declarations cost thousands of dollars." In fact, the fee in Boston is only $450. No. 13: "There are too many declarations granted...
...discovery of a financial channel running from Taiwan to Hong Kong to Republican national headquarters may well change the terms of Washington's latest money mess. Until now Democrats have taken the hit for fund-raising excesses, providing grist for investigations by the Justice Department and 11 congressional committees and prompting calls for an independent counsel. But as Young's secret role shows, the lure of easy foreign money is bipartisan. Young's business depends in large part on Western access to Chinese markets and a secure Taiwan, objectives pushed by Republicans and the think tank he backed. That agenda...
...FAILURES In 1986 the FBI launched an ambitious program to upgrade its computer systems, including computerized fingerprint scanners installed in police cars across the country. If that goal is ever realized, it will be four years late and double the cost projected. The upgrade effort is already such a mess, plagued by contractor and design lapses, that Congress refuses to fund it anymore. But Freeh maintains an ambitious vision: to build a whole new technological infrastructure to track global crime. "We have people with laptop computers in Russia moving money out of Citibank accounts in New York City, and people...
...hole in the roof, mushrooms grew on the floor. "The theater was almost impassable," Stern recalls. "Plaster was all over the stairs, like an alpine slag heap. We each carried giant flashlights and wore hard hats. Birds were flying through, dropping their stuff as we passed. It was a mess, but of course a very romantic mess. Michael was quick to see not only the romance but the potential." What Eisner also came to see, after two years of tough negotiations, was a deal that included low-interest loans from the city and state to cover 75% of the restoration...
Kevin Smith, by contrast, owes nothing to nobody. As he proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in Clerks, he's an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In Chasing Amy, he has moved up slightly--color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he's still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...