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...debt to put up the whole sum at once, it could pay it off in installments over, say, the next 244 years. With a program like that, Mr. President, you could scrap affirmative action, welfare reform and the entire host of Great Society programs. You'd be fighting present-day injustice and social ills instead of futilely trying to atone for the sins of the past...
...union of a male and female. Today's Catholic annulment process is a sham. The permanent canonical severance of a couple previously regarded as formally joined needs to be called something else, like "canonical dissolution" or "Catholic divorce." No one, not even God, has ever unscrambled an omelet. The present-day annulment is comparable to divorcing children from their parents. MICHAEL A. IACONA SR. Littlestown...
Call it the Neverending Party, or the Anniversary from Hell. The play is set in present-day New York in the home of an upperclass couple, Charlie and Myra Brock. It is the night of their 10th wedding anniversary, and they are giving--or are supposed to be giving--a party to celebrate the occasion. The first guests, Ken Gorman (Jed Silverstein '97) and wife Chris (Abigail H. Gray '99), arrive just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot. Upon rushing up to the bedroom, they discover that Charlie, for motives unknown, has shot himself...
Herzog was born in Belfast, Ireland where, as a younger man, he was that country's national bantamweight boxing champion. He immigrated to present-day Israel in 1935 and graduated from the Hevron Yeshiva...
...ANGELES: Richard Riordan sailed to re-election at mayor of Los Angeles Tuesday night after a colorful but one-sided contest against former radical and present-day activist Tom Hayden. At 57, Hayden wears the dark suit and close-cropped haircut appropriate to his position as a California state senator, but TIME's James Willwerth notes that voters apparently couldn't dismiss the mental image of Hayden as a 1960s radical: disheveled, angry, defiant. In the campaign, Hayden proved that he hadn't lost his passion. He attacked Riordan for his record on racial healing and environmental issues. Meanwhile, Riordan...