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...that in a postcolonial world, confederal states require divorce before reconciliation. The Baltic republics might have chosen this path, had Gorbachev allowed them to go their own way. After all, it is a natural Baltic interest to retain economic, communications and even military links with the country that will for decades remain the greatest power in that part of the world. The Balts would give up many attributes of sovereignty in return for a flag and an anthem...
...recess, the full Senate is almost certain to follow the ethics committee recommendation and denounce Durenberger for bringing the chamber into "dishonor and disrepute." Durenberger may feel that by enduring a moment of shame and making restitution he puts things right with the world and deserves to retain a place of honor in it. If so, he is ignoring an elementary principle of political morality: those who make the laws are not above them...
...nonordained parish leaders in priestless congregations. To Schoenherr, a former priest, such measures are no more than stopgaps. As he sees it, the chief problem is celibacy. Eventually, he maintains, the church "will have to accept the ordination of married men in order to recruit and retain." But that is not likely to happen any time soon. Although a majority of American Catholics believe that priests ought to be allowed to marry, Pope John Paul II has repeatedly and adamantly reaffirmed the ancient requirement of celibacy for priests of the Latin rite...
George Bush seems like a hard man not to like. But some of us are up to the challenge. It's not a question of disagreeing with his policies, or despairing of his "vision," or worrying about his "timidity" -- the usual charges. A few people retain what the President himself has called "this fantastically, diabolically anti-me" attitude. They dislike him personally...
...last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with whatever arrangement Ottawa and Quebec can agree on. Washington's biggest concern is that the new Canadian entity retain its economic health. Like most Americans, officials in Washington seem to think Canada is such a stable, prosperous and rational society that it will resolve its problems sensibly...