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Brenda Jarmon of Tallahassee still remembers the chilling August phone call. Her daughter, Corporal Lynette Guthery of the Army's 24th Infantry Division (mechanized), based outside Hinesville, Ga., needed a precious favor. Could the 40-year-old grandmother take care of 2 1/2-year-old Ikea -- immediately? Both Lynette and her separated Army husband had been ordered to Saudi Arabia, and Ikea needed a new home right away. Of course, answered Jarmon, promptly placing her life, and her Ph.D. thesis in social work, on hold. She had signed papers earlier agreeing to become her granddaughter's guardian in case of a military...
...Church. The ACT-UP protest to which the posters refer and which the video documents is infamous among Catholics, many of whom know from detailed press accounts that it involved not only disruption of a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, but desecration of the Eucharist, perhaps the most precious symbol in the Catholic faith...
...there are risks for the U.S. too. One is that the public will grow impatient to see some measurable progress in a war that is yielding precious little, at least as long as the Pentagon jealously guards bomb-damage reports and pictures. Those that it has released may actually intensify the problem, since people may wonder why, if the missiles are doing their job so well, is the war taking so long? White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater took care to warn last week that "there are going to be enemy victories; there are going to be enemy surprises; there...
...that thrives on breakneck innovation, the personal-computer industry has not come up with a lot of fresh ideas of late. Since the introduction of the desktop computer in 1977, the laptop computer in 1983 and the Macintosh in 1984, there have been quite a few additional improvements but precious little that has been truly new and different. Progress, as they say in the business, has been evolutionary, not revolutionary...
...aggressive lobbying, the Democratic leadership took a more hands-off approach toward rank-and-file Congressmen. House Speaker Tom Foley argued that arm-twisting was not the right way to influence colleagues on what he termed "a matter of conscience," but that deferential stance probably cost antiwar Democrats precious votes...