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Armageddon is a fine, thumping word, almost onomatopoeic in its evocation of finality. This metaphor for ultimate conflict probably gets its name from Mount Megiddo, a scraggly hill on a great plain in northern Israel where, as many conservative Protestants believe, a great battle will end history's most terrible war. According to scenarios drawn from prophetic passages in Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah and Revelation, a number of nations, including Babylon (read Iraq) and led by an evil Antichrist, will invade Israel during this conflict. But then the Son of God will return to halt the slaughter and, according to some...
With principals and teachers pushing parents' concerns out of the limelight, the conclusion is as plain as graffiti on playground equipment. The educational establishment in Chicago does not want reform; it wants to protect its budget and its constituents' job security...
...SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL (CBS, Feb. 3, 9 p.m. EST). Glenn Close plays a mail- order mother, circa 1910, who moves West to help a widowed farmer ! (Christopher Walken) take care of his two children. Another huggably homespun Hallmark Hall of Fame drama, enhanced by two sincere performances...
...Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew were too boring. And Trixie Belden? She was just plain dorky. But then Rebecca Langlois, a Dallas sixth-grader, discovered Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne and Stacey. As just about every girl between eight and 12 knows, those are the founding members of the Baby-Sitters Club and the hottest fictional characters with today's preadolescent literary set. "They're funny and exciting, and the adventures they go through are stuff that can happen in real life," says Langlois, 12. She heads for the bookstore the minute the latest installment arrives...
Such favored treatment for the customers of big banks was a heated issue last week, as consumers and politicians braced for a possible wave of new banking failures. "The situation is patently unfair -- just plain wrong," said Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee. Concurred John Jacob, president of the National Urban League, which lost more than $200,000 at Freedom National because of the government's double standard: "I think it is grossly discriminatory against banks that happen to be small." Amid the outcry, the FDIC said it was reviewing its policy at Freedom National...