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To make the pledge official, the organizers held a ceremony at Eliot House, where a commemorative check for more than $100,000 was given to representatives of the Jimmy Fund. No real money changed hands then, but the co-chairs of the 1993 show were expected to deliver about $160...
The vast majority of zines, however, settle for the slightly irreverent. Some have literary aspirations, others revel in white-trash culture; some have , a weirdly tight focus, others purposefully ramble. Diseased Pariah News uses gallows humor to lampoon the daily trauma of living with AIDS; Processed World ridicules the consumer...
Rwanda and Zaire -- previously on the outs about how to bring about the return of 1.2 million wary Hutu refugees in Zairian border camps -- agreed to work together to solve the crisis. Senior United Nations officials called the pledge a "big achievement," mainly because it means Zaire might crack down...
On the offensive last Friday in Minneapolis, an angry President confidently told a group of police officials, "We're going to get you a crime bill." That pledge will be redeemed but not because Bill Clinton promised it. The President's own political weakness was largely responsible for the House...
The larger groups represented at the meeting -- notably Operation Rescue and its more sizable spin-offs -- seemed at least superficially resistant to that transition; they require that members sign a pledge of nonviolence. Yet Fred Hobbs, a special agent with the Florida department of law enforcement who has been investigating...