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...uneven behavior with a promise that he will abide by elections to choose his successor. "I am leaving on Feb. 7," Aristide was quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti was one of his great foreign policy achievements. Now it may be unraveling just...
...America is in turmoil and disarray--scolded by John Paul for laissez-faire theology, racked by internal squabbles over moral issues (artificial means of birth control, abortion, pre- and extramarital sex, divorce, gay and lesbian rights) up and down the hierarchy and tainted as well by scandal? The spate of news accounts in recent years about priests accused of sexually molesting children is only the most disturbing sign that something must be seriously wrong within the U.S. church. There is another, with potential long-range consequences: the minuscule numbers of men entering the priesthood and women entering religious congregations, suggesting...
...been more than 30 years since Carol Burnett appeared on Broadway. What lured her back is this play about plays and players, Moon over Buffalo, by Ken Ludwig. His comedy Lend Me a Tenor was a Broadway hit in 1989 and moved on to a spate of international productions. Like Tenor, Moon over Buffalo is fast and farcical. Burnett veers winningly between squawking moments of indignation and blazing, face-overspilling grins. Bosco veers in another way. He gets to play most of the second act in a state of delirious intoxication, and does a lovely job of conveying the light...
...research assignments for Congress last year and welcomed nearly 850,000 visitors, has in fact long been plagued by security problems. Just since 1991, its losses from damage and mutilation amount to nearly $1.8 million, and altogether some 300,000 volumes are missing. In 1992, after a spate of arrests, including that of a man who was caught leaving the library with two rare maps under his sweater, Billington beefed up security. Despite protests, he limited access to the stacks, and installed video cameras and theft-detection gates at the exits. Most important, the library agreed that it would notify...
While the threat from global warming is purely theoretical, the danger from an old-fashioned, decades-long spate of stormy seasons is real. Gray says we need look back only to the 1950s and '60s, when 21 hurricanes pummeled the U.S., to see what could lie ahead for coastal residents. Those hurricanes took hundreds of lives in the U.S. and thousands in the Caribbean. While lives can be protected by early warning and prompt evacuation, protecting property is another matter. If Hurricane Andrew had veered just 20 miles farther north on its destructive path through South Florida...