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...political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment and recrimination blazed by David Duke, then trod successfully by Jesse Helms and now given a tarnished patina of intellectual respectability by William Bennett...
...blaming celibacy for everything that she dislikes in the church, Ranke- Heinemann follows a path already well trod by Protestants, historians and other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself...
Apart from the well-trod tourist trail around the bloc, which leads to such places as the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, the Old Town Square in Prague and the neo-Gothic parliament building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, the cities have some surprising things to offer. Even the region's grim industrial agglomerations are worth seeing, if only to judge for yourself how badly communism failed...
Bush has so carefully trod the line between will and wallet that pollsters hear few specific criticisms about him in focus groups and telephone interviews. Michael Donilon, a Washington pollster who in December conducted 200 interviews on Bush , reports that abortion is the only issue that makes people feel "uneasy" about the President. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat who praises Bush as "politically brilliant," adds, "He's saying all the right things, and he hasn't had to pay any price...
...following the path from Rome that was trod by missionaries of long ago, the envoys of the Holy See scored major triumphs in Eastern Europe last week. First, with the remarkable assent of the Kremlin, Pope John Paul II named a new bishop for Belorussia, a Soviet republic that borders Poland. It was the first such appointment in 63 years; the region's last Catholic bishop was sent to prison in 1927. The Pontiff then named three new bishops and regularized the status of a fourth to give hard-line Czechoslovakia its fullest hierarchy since the Communists launched a postwar...