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Hagelin received a presidential nod when the Reform Party split into two factions during its national convention in August, with Pat Buchanan taking the other nomination. The Federal Elections Commission recognized Buchanan as the official party candidate, which made him eligible--and made Hagelin ineligible--for $12.6 million in federal funds...
...from the party that split speaks often about bringing the American public together, to give a voice to other voters disenchanted with the mainstream candidates whose parties have had decades to prove themselves and whose platforms, he says, have not realistically addressed the problems...
Rich discovered Broadway young, wearing out the sound tracks of South Pacific and The Pajama Game on the hi-fi with his parents: "The music, our shared affection for it, became a private language of the afternoon, a whole vocabulary of joy." But when Rich was seven, his parents split up, a stigmatizing act in 1950s suburban Washington, D.C. His mother was remarried, to a volatile lawyer who beat Rich and broke her down into sad resignation. As he sought the escape of the theater, Rich's love of the stage flowered--abetted, ironically, by his stepfather, who subsidized...
...locked in my heating oil at $1.38. We may buy a second wood stove. I have an Everest of logs to split and stack. I wonder if they will last until April...
...hold on to it by legal means. And of course right now, Kostunica has the "law" on his side, in the sense that the U.N. resolution that ended last year's war affirmed Yugoslavian sovereignty over an autonomous (but not independent) Kosovo. That's an issue that may still split NATO, with the U.S. being more inclined than its European allies to consider the possibility of independence for Kosovo. And the Kosovar Albanians have been a little alarmed by the changes in Belgrade, since Yugoslavia's rapprochement with the West may make their own quest for independence more difficult. Still...