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...decision that could have enormous impact, the Supreme Court upholds a California law allowing new mothers to take time from their jobs. -- As Iranscam continues to unfold, Washington wonders if the President is more out of touch than ever. -- To remain the Republican front runner for 1988, George Bush must finally step out from Reagan' s shadow...
...falls under the heading of "sweet," perhaps the worst praise a movie can use to advertise itself. And there's something annoying about dramatic movies that take themselves too seriously and don't come to a good dramatic conclusion. You spend two hours watching the drama of this movie unfold, but you're still left with only half a movie...
WASHINGTON--As a scholar of presidential success and failure, Littauer Professor of Public Administration Richard E. Neustadt watches the Nicaraguan aid debate unfold and wonders where it all will...
...seemed to bring to a head a long-felt yearning for democratically elected leaders. Whether a transition of power in Manila can take place without bloodshed was, as this week began, in doubt. Unlike the grisly upheavals in Iran and Nicaragua, events in the Philippines last week seemed to unfold in a kind of slow motion that augured well for civil order. "There is a lot of caution in the Filipino people," noted one Pentagon official. Marcos may try to buy time by entering into negotiations with Enrile and Ramos. Even in that event, violence may be unavoidable. "If things...
Interspersed with this grisly tale, told in period prose, alternating chapters of the book unfold the somewhat grayer story of a 1980s police superintendent named Nicholas Hawksmoor. Another moody loner, Hawksmoor is investigating a series of murders at various 18th century churches, all built by Dyer (of whom he has never heard). The superintendent plunges into an intuitive pursuit in which he begins to identify with the killer. His prime suspect, often glimpsed around the churches, is the spectral figure of a derelict with a knack for drawing. Is it the ghost of Dyer? As Hawksmoor closes in, his overstrained...