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Over the next few months, delicate negotiations will determine whether the world's largest environmental meeting will produce real progress in saving the planet from man-made ruin. Or whether the session will merely add to global warming with hot-air emissions from about 100,000 parliamentarians, religious leaders, environmentalists and heads of state...
...Oral Roberts University. So, she said, after he "assured me that the dinner was a professional courtesy only," they went to a restaurant after work. "He made a comment I vividly remember," she said. "He said that if I ever told anyone of his behavior, that it would ruin his career...
Politicians have seen their colleagues get "caught" in previous scandals. They have seen women ruin many a man's career. They don't see it for what it really is--men using poor judgment and digging their own graves. They sympathize with Thomas because they identify with...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...
Tactics that raw have disappeared from Harkin's script, but he often declines to let accuracy ruin a witty line or blunt a political dart. Angry that Bush may provide emergency assistance to the Soviet Union if food shortages worsen, Harkin says that G.O.P. niggardliness toward elderly Americans will force many of them "to choose this winter between heating and eating." Harkin dismisses the possibility of starvation in the Soviet Union: "I keep seeing these pictures of Russians. I've never seen a picture of a skinny one yet." When he argues for rapid reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...