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...truce to the I.R.A.'s continued adherence to its own cease-fire. The Loyalists added a surprise note of apology for their terrorist actions, declaring their "abject and true remorse" to the loved ones of all innocent victims for the "intolerable suffering" they had endured. "We are on the threshold of a new beginning," the statement said, "with our battles in future being political battles...
Pope John Paul II's 229-page "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" -- the first mass-appeal book by a sitting Pontiff -- starts selling at bookstores worldwide tomorrow morning. TIME religion writer Richard N. Ostling, who's sneaked an advance peak, says U.S. distributor Alfred A. Knopf's million-copy advance printing may be an American record. The $20 hardcover is being put on sale in 35 countries in 21 languages, a commercial feat rivaled only by Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and Madonna's teaser "Sex." Ostling, who says many expected repackaged boilerplate from the Holy See, says the Pope...
...problem with moral lectures by politicians is not just the clang effect. Once politicians cross the threshold and begin to preach, it becomes natural for the flock to demand of the preachers an accounting of their private lives, if only to see how the pulpit pounders live up to their own proclaimed standards. And that in turn legitimates our current obsession with what is euphemistically called character but is really a prurient interest in the private lives -- actually, the private vices -- of our leaders. Campaigns turn into spectacles of dueling peccadilloes and mutual muckraking. The end result of this orgy...
...June document cites testimony by Walter F. Morgan Jr., president of the DePaoli Mosaic Company, who contradicted the University's witnesses. Morgan, whose company installed the threshold during MAC renovations in 1965, said the floor there was smooth and "if it was wet enough, could cause hydroplaning...
Harvard also disputed the claim that the defendant didn't have a chance to examine the threshold. A motion filed by the University stated that plaintiff took photographs of the threshold prior to the resurfacing...