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Stocked with Irish and German Catholics when it first opened in 1912, the middle-class parish on the city's northern edge is increasingly filled with Asians, African Americans and Hispanics. That influx has not been enough to offset the impact of smaller families and the exodus of many parishioners fleeing rising crime. Since Mass attendance peaked in 1975 at about 2,700, it has steadily declined 5% a year. Kenneally decided to start the gym Mass just months after he arrived at the parish in 1984 as a way to lure back Catholics who considered the traditional Mass...
...avoid deepening the deficit, Clinton plans to offset the $60 billion in tax breaks with spending cuts worth $76 billion over the next five years. Most of the money -- $52 billion -- comes from simply extending the current law that freezes discretionary spending at current levels. Clinton was less specific about the rest of the cuts. This week Vice President Al Gore is expected to detail plans to save $24 billion by shrinking three Cabinet-level departments -- Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development -- and all but eliminating the General Services Administration. With the Republicans in control of Congress, Clinton...
...makes it much harder to raise taxes than under the current 51 percent vote required.) The tax reform package, a key element of the party's 10-point "Contract with America," also bans retroactive tax increases and allows leeway only for revenue-raising hikes and others to offset any forthcoming capital gains cuts. The GOP also formally embraced a series of rule changes that will force staff cuts, limit committee chairmen to three consecutive terms and eliminate all $5 million in funds for 28 legislative support groups, such as the Congressional Black Caucus. Howls of protests from Democrats were immediately...
...children was the manifestation of a person with a serious mental condition and suicidal instincts. As her children were a very piece of her own self, the ending of their lives in a certain way successfully repeats Smith's reported suicide attempts. Such an explanation does not offset the horror of her deeds, but may give a psychological alibi for monstrous and unthinkable infanticide. Her lawyers could argue that she loved her children as she loved herself...
...physicians have been reluctant to treat patients with drugs that lower cholesterol. Not only are the medications expensive (as much as $1,000 a year), but they also have been dogged by an inexplicable anomaly: in studies of patients who take them, declines in fatal heart attacks have been offset by a mysterious rise in deaths from other causes. As attractive as the cholesterol-reducing pills might seem, nobody had yet proved that they actually save lives...