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Economics is also at the root of the Russian parliament's challenge to Yeltsin. For months, lawmakers have been trying to rein in his liberalized prices and his plans to privatize land and modernize industry. They say reforms that have produced painful side effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia...
...problems that extend back a decade. Among them: the continuing Iran-contra probe, the scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and lingering questions over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have in recent years been repeatedly charged with bending legal guidelines in the zeal to advance careers with heavy conviction rates...
...hiding. But once--once let me have an emotion? Let the animals come out?" This plaintive cry is at the heart of the House of Blue Leaves. John Guare does let the animals out in this brilliant early script of his, and director Jeremy Nye gives them strategically free rein in the superb production mounted at Leverett House...
...this should come as no surprise to the Pope who launched his tenure with attacks on the so-called "liberation theology," practiced by many of his clergy in Latin America. But John Paul II has also used his office to rein in American and other western bishops for theological deviations...
...this, of course, is etched in stone -- or in silicon. In the end, what propels science and technology forward is not just what can be done but also what society chooses to do. As the brief history of the nuclear age has taught, powerful technologies are hard to rein in once they've been loosed on the world. Is humankind mature enough to handle the possibilities of intelligent robots, self-replicating machines and virtual sex? Fantastic new opportunities are sure to come. The hard part will be deciding which ones to pursue and which to bypass...