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...same discontent that has gone national in recent years. It also brings to Capitol Hill the West's most abiding issue, the land: who owns it, how to use it and who decides. Translated into Washington terms, that means ever more heated politics of the environment, as Western lawmakers tear through two decades of regulations. They are doing it with such success that many moderate Republicans--and even House Speaker Newt Gingrich--fear they are handing the Democrats a powerful issue. Democrats, including the President, couldn't agree more...
Sadly, one of the best winter spectator sports, kitschy-ice-skating-outfit-watching, has been in decline ever since the Soviet Union went capitalist and discovered good taste. The final straw: OKSANA BAIUL, whose feathery, tear-stained confection did Ukraine so proud in the 1994 Olympics (above), has been given a makeover in December's Seventeen (left). Well, it had to happen. In the year she has lived in the U.S., Baiul has cottoned on to a lot of what it means to be an American teenager. When not performing, she likes to shop, she says, especially for clothes...
...significance of the buildings makes their preservation necessary," said Cambridge Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, a nearby resident. "It is not appropriate to tear down these historic houses and put in a parking lot which would not be congenial to the neighborhood...
This year, the house replaced--much of the furniture in the dining hall, and Shinagel cited wear and tear on the facility as a problem in the past...
...black clinical psychologist. Says political scientist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal: "I hear a lot of anger from even middle-class and professional blacks about this. They believe that the police, the prosecutors, the whole criminal justice system are out to tear down black men, especially successful black...