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...Irish people. But we want to make sure that the evolution will be by peaceful means and by agreement. Unitary government, one government for the whole country, would obviously be our ideal situation, but one doesn't always attain one's ideals. Initially -and this is paramount-there must be a recognized administration in the North of Ireland that will command the support of both sides. That is the first step, a national priority. What will come from there I don't know. At least I hope that peace will come from...
...launch slanders against us, to sabotage and destroy us." It was of no consequence, he said, that Iran would not be called an Islamic Democratic Republic, since the "word Islam does not need adjectives such as democratic. Precisely because Islam is everything, it means everything." He defended the paramount role that the clergy will play under the new constitution: "Since people love the clergy, have faith in the clergy, it is right that the supreme religious authority should oversee the work of the Prime Minister or of the President of the Republic, to make sure that they...
...longer. Feminist organizations across the country have been waging local antiporn skirmishes of their own. In Seattle the chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women campaigned successfully to get Paramount Pictures to remove objectionable ads for its sexploitation film Bloodline. In Minneapolis earlier this month, some 4,500 women from several states marched through the city's red-light district behind a banner that read: WOMEN UNITE, TAKE BACK THE NIGHT. In Cambridge, Mass., a porn fighter fired a rifle shot in the middle of the night into a Harvard Square bookshop that she said carried pornographic literature. With...
...this tepid horror movie had been made for peanuts by struggling B-movie makers, it would be easy to forgive and forget. But Prophecy is the work of a major director, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), working with a major budget ($8 million) for a major studio (Paramount). Prophecy is silly, overproduced and boring: there isn't a single scary moment. When the audience shrieks, it is only because the characters are too stupid to get out of harm's painfully obvious...
...withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company's South African investments. But what about the 11 other corporations that thumbed their noses at Harvard? The University should not rely on the actions of others on this issue of paramount importance...