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...peace plan that calls for elections in the occupied territories. Bowing to pressures from hard-liners within his Likud bloc, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir two weeks ago saddled the proposal with conditions that are anathema to the Palestinians. Labor Party leaders responded last week by voting to quit the government. The move, yet to be ratified by the party's 1,300-member Central Committee, threatens not only to wreck the coalition but also to kill the peace plan...
...whom he had borrowed money that he did not repay clubbed him over the head. That is why Marc has a steel plate in his head. After a failed suicide attempt, he entered a self-help group at Tampa's Glenbeigh Hospital and thinks this time he really has quit gambling. Says Marc: "I'm a miracle. Most people that get in as deep I did either end up dead, in prison or alone...
...Everything was at a boil," she felt, "and I couldn't stay away." Eventually Wilentz quit her job as a TIME staff writer to live in Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class...
Zorrilla, who quit as DFS chief in 1985, was arrested, and is expected to be charged with murder. Solving the crime would be a breakthrough for President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who is refurbishing his image by going after people thought to be untouchable...
...thought, we've grown up thinking women can achieve the same as men and it would make sense if Harvard reflected that by admitting a fair share. "It's too many women," he continued, "They just want to come to Harvard to prove they can do it, then they quit their jobs a few years later to have children." He went on to explain about "those Asian students who beat out our homegrown boys for the best grades...