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Leaping into the fray last week, President Clinton told a thousand cheering supporters at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus dinner, "The issue is whether or not we're going to value the culture, the traditions of everybody and also recognize that we have a solemn obligation to let these children live up to the fullest of their God-given capabilities." But the issue does not divide purely along partisan lines. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich and G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Richard Lugar and Patrick Buchanan back the English-only movement, G.O.P. Governor George Bush of Texas left popular bilingual programs untouched...
Meanwhile, most of the lawyers are already thinking about life after Simpson. Darden, who has looked solemn and unhappy much of the time, was asked last week what would be next for him. "Me?" he said with an apparent straight face. "This is my last case." Shapiro, who plans "to reacquaint myself with my family," will also soon be joining a large Los Angeles law firm as a senior partner, dissolving his own. But Johnnie Cochran swears that if O.J. is retried, he will still be beside him. "Despite the fact that I'll probably be in bankruptcy...
This high holy day is marked by "solemn reflection on ways to improve ourselves and make the next year a better one by...[acting] in a more positive and constructive way," said Hillel Chair Ethan M. Tucker...
America's liberal democracy has always been about majority rule, but within a framework that guarantees the rights of the minority. Proponents of prayer in school forget about the latter. Pat Robertson claims, "Those men and women who founded this land made a solemn covenant that they would be the people of God and that this would be a Christian nation...
...Today," said President Clinton, "I amannouncing the normalization of diplomatic relationships with Vietnam." With that matter-of-fact sentence, spoken at a solemn ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Clintonexchanged 20 years of cold peace for active ties to an economically resurgent Vietnam. He did so amid boycotts by veterans groups and Republican leaders -- including most contenders for the presidential nomination -- who protested that Hanoi had done far toolittle to help account for U.S. servicemen missing in the Vietnamese conflict. "All signs point to Vietnam willfully withholding information which could resolve the fate of many Americans lost...