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...next day Clinton produced Aristide before cameras in the White House to allay some of the fears that the Haitian's reputation as an anti-U.S. leftist and rabble-rousing demagogue have stirred. Speaking in careful English -- his native language is Creole French -- the slightly built Roman Catholic priest declared, "We say no to retaliation, no to vengeance." To dispel any thought that the U.S. might be installing by force a new President-for-life, Aristide pledged to abide by his country's constitution and yield his office to an elected successor in February 1996, when his five-year...
Despite intense opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, the document also recognizes that unsafe abortions are a public-health problem that should be addressed. But the plan steered clear of encouraging abortion as a means of family planning, and, in a stunning reversal, the Vatican endorsed much of the program...
...findings from France indicate that humans were first-class polluters well before the Industrial Revolution. As early as 2,500 years ago, in fact, Greek and Roman smelters spewed enough lead to contaminate the entire northern hemisphere, according to a study by France's Domaine University that analyzed lead preserved deep in Greenland's ice. The oldest-ever toxic fallout, long suspected by other scientists, began with pollution from Central European silver refining and other post-Bronze Age industry, and lasted 800 years. With 400 tons of lead found in Greenland alone, the damage rivals that of the 20th century...
Bitter Moon. The only thing that was bitter about this Roman Polanski turkey was me, that I had paid the exorbitant amount of money to see it. Hugh Grant gives an absolutely listless performance. I saw Four Weddings and a Funeral again, and I felt better...
...devoutly Roman Catholic parents, Jimmy and Roma, lived in Parkmore, a tree-lined Johannesburg suburb -- and they accepted apartheid. Kevin, however, | like many of his generation, soon began to question it openly. "The police used to go around arresting black people for not carrying their passes," his mother recalls. "They used to treat them very badly, and we felt unable to do anything about it. But Kevin got very angry about it. He used to have arguments with his father. 'Why couldn't we do something about it? Why didn't we go shout at those police...