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...among them is the destiny of 2.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who carry Hong Kong-British passports. Britain has said that it will not grant them full citizenship, but they are unlikely to want to become Chinese citizens. Another problem is that even if the colony is allowed to retain its judicial system after 1997, it is unclear how or by whom judges will be appointed...
...with lawyers, with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays...
...much polishing would be unfortunate. Her appeal is in her genuineness and humanity. In the House, Congressmen forgive her occasional shrillness because she is being herself and not someone else. In winning at a man's game, she has managed to retain a naturalness and warmth. If she is to add to the ticket-and enlarge politics itself-it will be not because she was able to transform herself into another Walter Mondale but because she was able to be at once a national politician and a woman. -By Evan Thomas...
Though Brock's office has a year to investigate the complaint, it is likely to rule much sooner. Transpace needs to win three new contracts quickly in order to retain its access to NASA's Delta launch missile. Without the use of the powerful Delta, Transpace would be grounded...
...time last week, the 230 U.S. bankruptcy judges authorized by law were out of work. But a prolonged crisis was narrowly averted when the unemployed judges were hired back as consultants to district court judges, which enabled them to give advice on legal matters as well as retain their $66,100-a-year salaries. The imbroglio was the latest episode in a two-year-long melodrama that had, in the words of one former judge, threatened to make the bankruptcy courts "the laughingstock of this nation." The confusion finally ended last week when Congress passed legislation that sets...