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...they reveal about Gorbachev, a stocky, balding man with a wine-colored birthmark on his forehead.* Trained as a lawyer, he is the first Soviet leader born after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the best educated since Lenin. His speech underscores his upbringing: his mastery of Russian grammar is superior to that of most of his Kremlin predecessors. He is the exemplar of the New Guard, which represents a generation raised after the Stalinist horrors and for which the catastrophe of World War II is an adolescent memory. Though much about Gorbachev remains a mystery...
Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...
There are 130,000 people land who knows how many dogs) in the Duluth. Minn., Superior, Wise metropolitan area, so there must be at least 130,000 signs...
Almost nothing has succeeded in Duluth over the past three or four years. A once great port, which sent the resources of the Iron Range to the rest of the world via the massive are boats that ply Lake Superior, has faded...
Much to its credit, the City of Cambridge courageously imposed a ban on the testing, storage, and transportation of nerve gas agents within the city limits. Last month, a Middlesex Superior Court judge upheld Cambridge's ordinance, ruling that it was both "reasonable and enforceable." Yet ADL has filed an appeal and could drag the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...