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...concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in a fortnight. In the Middle East, the approach of a peace conference has the same effect. As Secretary of State James Baker took off last weekend for what he called his final swing to nail down arrangements for the gathering that will at last bring Arabs and Israelis face to face, those two sides were anxiously bumping and jostling each other...
...going all the way. "Mine was harder, but his was bigger," says Kathi about Michael. Turns out (wink, wink) she's comparing their biceps. "There's kind of an arbitrary line that we can't cross," says executive producer Howard Schultz. "We don't try to hit the nail on the head." Be thankful for small favors...
...know that it's very shortsighted. On the other hand, overall I am very, very happy because I think the terms of the debate have been really opened up. I don't think things will ever be the same again. And I think Clarence Thomas' nomination drives that nail home. There will now forever more be diversity of opinion in the black community. People will think about these things a great deal more than they did when we were a sort of one-party system. I feel very good about that...
...Angeles County, for example, blacks, who make up 10% of the population, hold 30% of the county jobs. Hispanics, who constitute 33% of the population, ! hold only 18% of the jobs. "Blacks think we want to take jobs away from them, so they're fighting us tooth and nail," says Raul Nunez, president of the Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association. "They are doing the same thing to us that whites did to them...
...abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. But though Souter joined in that vote, his views on a total ban on abortion are unknown, and Sandra Day O'Connor has implied a reluctance to toss out Roe v. Wade altogether. Thus pressure is building on the President to nail down an antiabortion majority once and for all -- or, says a pro-life leader, "there'll be hell...