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...road repairs in Duluth, Minn.; the annual reunion of the 450-member Robinson family in Cleveland; the opening of a shopping center in St. Louis, where a time capsule received contributions of old draft cards, snapshots of pet dogs, and a jar of Vaseline. Birds died from botulism in Oregon, and a 90-lb. baby boy was born to Radha, a rhinoceros living in Los Angeles, after a 515-day pregnancy (August has been good to Radha...
...interest in congressional campaigns is directly linked to one of Ronald Reagan's pet projects, tax reform. The largest PAC contributors are usually the energy, real estate, banking and insurance industries, all of which benefit from tax breaks threatened by some of the tax plans under consideration. Not surprisingly, Oregon's Bob Packwood, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has received the most enthusiastic support: $2.6 million so far, $691,000 of it PAC money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance...
...doubles as his daughter's bedroom. Glynn and his wife considered buying a house when they married in 1994, but, he says, "I thought houses were overvalued." Now they can't afford their neighborhood, even though their income has grown considerably. So he and his wife are looking--in Oregon and Washington. "I kick myself when I think of places I saw" in the mid-'90s, Glynn says...
...Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling, its halls haunted by the ghosts of the glory days...
...adds that opponents of same-sex marriage face a greater challenge in Massachusetts than in more conservative states. But at the same time, Mineau says, “we’re not that different than Oregon,” referring to that state’s approval last year of a same-sex marriage...