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Recent weeks have seen a rash of Walsh-sponsored proposals designed to make sure Harvard pays its fair share for city services...
...Dignity's national president James Bussen, a Chicago management consultant. San Francisco, he declared, "was the last bastion of the liberal wall to fall." Not quite. Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland, Sacramento and San Antonio, at least, still allow Dignity to meet in church, though Rome's pressure on them is sure to grow. A chapter in Dayton also sponsors public Masses, but it has agreed to accept church teaching...
Surfacing in fragments is a willfully inconclusive story of vanished Secret Service funds, estimated at (pounds)4 million, that are thought to have been used by Fiona to set up an intelligence network in East Germany. But one can never be sure. Deighton dangles quite a few possibilities that should lure readers on to future Samson adventures. In addition to dead men who do not stay dead, there may be a defector who may not be defective: a small hint is dropped that Fiona could be working for our side after all. When last seen, Bernie...
Accordingly, four years ago in San Francisco, they filled the convention hall with a sea of waving flags. That did not quite do the trick. So this year they went one step further. They started bashing foreigners -- not Communists, to be sure, but second best -- ruthlessly efficient Asians. Starting with Richard Gephardt's "$48,000 Hyundai" ads and finishing with a Dukakis TV spot that featured a rising Japanese flag, the Democrats' appeal to economic nationalism has not been subtle. Attacking allies is not nearly as satisfying as attacking enemies (say, the Evil Empire), but it is a start...
...should go to a disciplined financial manager. Tower wants to bring his own associates into the Pentagon, but Bush's aides are insisting that he accept an efficient administrator as his second-in- command. Bush's negotiators, said a source close to both Bush and Tower, want to be sure "they don't create another Cap Weinberger...