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...begun. Last week Lloyds Bank announced that it was considering making a $6.6 billion bid for Midland, Britain's third largest bank, besting the $5.8 billion offer made by Hong Kong-based HSBC Holdings. If the deal goes through, the Lloyds-Midland combo, with assets of $197 billion, will rank 18th in the world...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...
...postwar era took place back to back, almost continuously: 1958 in Brussels, 1964-65 in New York City, 1967 in Montreal and 1970 in Osaka. And then, in the neo-Luddite, small-is-beautiful era since, we have had nothing -- or nothing but piddling, second-and third-rank expositions that reflected (and self-fulfillingly confirmed) the tapped-out, lowered-expectations zeitgeist...
...picture taken with striking members of the United Auto Workers at the Caterpillar plant. "It's not good business to replace workers," Clinton told them. "They have a right to strike, and they shouldn't lose their jobs doing it". . . On the Other Hand: Last month he praised rank-and-file U.A.W. workers at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas, for going "against the leadership of their own union" to accept flexible new work rules that persuaded GM to keep the factory open. Clinton implied it was the U.A.W. leadership's stubbornness in not changing work rules...
...existing prejudice -- that many people don't know if they can believe anything Clinton says. There'll be ads that say 'Clinton talks about a middle-class tax cut, but he's raised over 100 taxes in Arkansas' and 'He talks about improving education, but Arkansas' pupils rank near the bottom on test scores.' " According to Bond, we'll also see spots that "accentuate the stature gap," like, "In the next decade 10 Third World countries will have nuclear weapons. Who better can deal with a madman with nukes, George Bush or Bill Clinton?" "Foreign policy will be an issue...