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...grim defeat for forces within the church organization who have staunchly supported large-scale media expansion. Harvey W. Wood, chairman of the church and chief proponent of the $250 million TV enterprise, resigned last week as the church disclosed that it had borrowed $41.5 million from pension funds to shore up the 24-hour news and public affairs channel as well as the troubled daily, Christian Science Monitor. The church says the Monitor Channel -- which costs $4 million a month to run -- will shut down by June 15 unless a buyer is found, an outcome analysts consider unlikely...
...real thrust of Tsongas' program lies in his efforts to shore up America's declining manufacturing base. He calls far more strongly than Clinton for an industrial policy that would pick winners among emerging new industries. To do that, Tsongas would create a federal office somewhat akin to Japan's famed Ministry of International Trade and Industry that would finance and develop new technologies. But the problem, as critics of industrial policy never tire of pointing out, is that no one really knows which promising discoveries today will blossom into thriving industries tomorrow...
Hardly surprising, then, that the savory city of rebels and craftsmen would appeal to Hughes, the longtime art critic for TIME and the epic chronicler of his native Australia (in the best-selling Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while...
Brown successfully stopped off-shore drilling in California, added hundreds of thousands of acres to the California park system, and appropriated millions of dollars for the protection of endangered wildlife. As governor, Brown successfully passed the toughest antismog laws in the country and put his state in the lead in utilizing new technologies to preserve the environment...
Bush has watched cities decline into poverty and violence with no national funding and leadership to help. His education proposals came late and lacked the requisite funding--ditto for his bare-bones health care "policy." He has tightened the definition of wetlands and threatened to authorize off-shore drilling. He has nominated right-wingers to the Supreme Court who will try to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer...