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...federal oil revenues to pay for coastal restoration, an idea also proposed by Louisiana's two Senators, one a Republican and the other a Democrat. They are not without supporters. Even the Army Corps of Engineers, which spent so much of its history trying to tame Mother Nature, has changed its tune and become a proactive steward of the Mississippi watershed...
With Khartoum unable or unwilling to provide security, the African Union hopes to increase its peacekeeping force from 2,700 to 7,700 by September. But even that may not be enough to tame an area the size of Texas. Five turbulent rounds of peace talks have made little headway, and frustration and mistrust run high...
While the leak was tame by Washington standards, failure to classify the letter made it all the easier for editors of the two papers to justify its publication. Indeed, some observers speculated that Weinberger himself wanted his missive made public, particularly since so many copies were dispatched around the Government. Said Thomas Longstreth, associate director of the privately funded Arms Control Association: "By sending it unclassified, Weinberger intended it to be leaked." The Secretary denies any such purpose. "I can't recall that I've ever classified a letter I've given the President," he told TIME last week...
...years amid reports that he had been forced out by the Princess; of pneumonia, complicated by the AIDS virus; in London. Two volumes of his memoirs, Royal Service and Royal Secrets, unpublished in Britain in deference to the palace, appeared in the U.S., where they sold briskly despite their tame content...
...Eddie tame Vincent's spirit and polish his gifts, make him the sort of man on whom he can safely place a side bet? Not really. Well surely then, when Eddie starts training to go back into competition again, he will get a chance to teach Vincent some lessons in respect for elders. No again. We are not on Rocky's side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision...