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...bonds of family and community, the beauty of human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot "see" her. That is, not only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self but, for all her maternal devotion, she is so caught up in minutiae that she fails to pay meaningful attention...
Already, the limited coming-to-grips with bad loans has wiped out 1987 profits at many major U.S. banks. Analysts expect most of the largest institutions to post overall losses. Among them: Citicorp, BankAmerica, Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover and Chemical Bank. Last week Pittsburgh's troubled Mellon Bank, the twelfth-ranking U.S. institution, disclosed that it would be about $220 million in the red for the fourth quarter, after boosting its loan-loss reserves...
...hearing-impaired twelfth-grade students at University High School in Irvine, Calif., last week marked a special homecoming. With hugs, flowers and sign-language messages of "I love you," they welcomed back Career Counselor Vincent Chalk...
...South is a good half-mile from United Nations headquarters. There are no flags, no logo and no indication that controversy rages inside. Only the directory in the red marble lobby provides a clue. Listed inconspicuously in alphabetical order, right after Quadrille Wallpapers & Fabrics Inc., is United Nations Archives, twelfth floor...
Faithful Shi'ites admit only to the authority of Muhammad and the Twelve Imams, who comprise Ali, Hussein and certain of their direct descendants. The Shi'ites consider the Twelve to be mediators between God and man. Though the Twelfth and last Imam went into hiding in A.D. 940, Shi'ites believe that he will re-emerge to rule the world as the messianic Mahdi. Until that time, the Shi'ite clergy are responsible for interpreting Islam. The Ayatullah Khomeini, however, has gone one step further by establishing his government as a regency for the Mahdi. Khomeini, who claims descent...