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...most remarkable visual memory of anyone that I have ever known," says Manchester. "When I interviewed her in Georgetown in the spring of '64, she would describe a scene, and she would even describe the configuration of the clouds in the sky. Later I would look at the photographs of that time, and she would be right...
...have people in Washington who honestly believe that money falls out of the sky," said Perot, whose visit to Harvard coincided with a studentrun constitutional convention this past weekend...
...business-class section, had already become a shrine as passengers came up and knelt beside it in prayer. Later, as he was being laid to rest in Morumbi cemetery, planes of the Brazilian air force twisted overhead, drawing a giant S and a heart in the sky...
...says, makes him wonder "whether we have encouraged, because of the tax code, too much health coverage . . . Cadillac coverage when we ought to be aiming for Chevrolet coverage." Senator Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat, acknowledged that "it's safe to say that we won't allow a sky's-the-limit tax exclusion." And a top adviser to President Clinton predicted "a cap on the tax subsidy for upper-income people." Union leaders are on the alert. "We thought we had beaten this idea of taxing benefits, but now it's back again," said Gerald McEntee, president...
...country that loses its head of state by violence often goes a bit mad. In Rwanda the madness was spreading even before the night of April 6, when the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his neighboring head of state Cyprien Ntaryamira from Burundi was shot out of the sky over the capital of Kigali, plunging into the gardens of the presidential palace. Habyarimana was a Hutu who had grabbed power in a coup in 1973 and worked hard to hang onto it. He was on his way back from a peace conference in Tanzania that was meant...