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...moment too soon comes General Chuck Yeager to re-establish old-fashioned standards of heroism. Yeager does not arrive out of the blue yonder. He is the world's most famous aviator, the hillbilly Lindy who shot down 13 German aircraft in World War II (five in one day) and went on to become the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound and live. His legendary career as a test pilot and hell raiser was sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image...
...This unity presents an opportunity for the next Pope. John Paul II's great unfulfilled desire was to visit China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Beijing, giving the Vatican a direct link to China's Catholics and a greater ability to object to government repression. In return, China would demand that the Holy See break off its ties with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province. In secret negotiations over the past decade, papal representatives cleared most obstacles to this kind of understanding, but one major sticking point has remained: the Pope's right to name bishops...
...that houses the Aoste brand - worth around 40% of the firm's revenues. Investors liked the slimmed-down look; shares climbed 4% on the news. Where does that leave rival Unilever? The Anglo-Dutch titan last week announced a 36% slide in pretax profits for 2004. "They need to re-establish a little bit of momentum" before trimming fat, says Andrew Wood of U.S. investment-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein. But don't expect major weight gain. Unilever first needs "to sort its own problems out," he says. Either way, their bankers' coffers will likely swell. - By Adam Smith...
...world. The presidential campaign was not a shining model of democracy but a no-holds-barred push to win at any cost?a sort of politics of mutually assured destruction. We should delay any future elections until the Democrats and Republicans agree to sign a peace treaty and re-establish the integrity of our nation. Daisy Swadesh Farmington...
...world. The presidential campaign was not a shining model of democracy but a no-holds-barred push to win at any cost--a sort of politics of mutually assured destruction. We should delay any future elections until the Democrats and Republicans agree to sign a peace treaty and re-establish the integrity of our nation. DAISY SWADESH Farmington...