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Military service by homosexuals is nothing new either, although the untold thousands who have served have had to remain deeply closeted -- or rely on the sympathy and discretion of superior officers who sometimes risked their own careers in protecting gays beneath them. Chuck Schoen of Clear Lake, California, head of a local gay-veterans chapter, last week sent a letter to President-elect Clinton commending him on the plan to drop the ban. Promised Schoen: "You will not hear the explosion of a Mardi Gras celebration but a sigh of relief from thousands of men and women." Schoen mentioned...
BARELY A WEEK AFTER NEW CEO JOHN F. SMITH Jr. pledged to make General Motors profitable by the end of 1993, his mission appears even more impossible. Most troubling, GM could now face untold costs in settling liability lawsuits relating to fire hazards in its Chevrolet and GMC pickup trucks, 5 million of which are still on the road. Newly released internal documents indicate that from 1983 to 1987, GM recognized but failed to correct a design flaw that exposed side fuel tanks during crash impacts, allegedly causing about 300 deaths...
Infused with partisan joy, the hall also loosened itself from its moorings on the Charles River, and slowly eased its way up into the air to live in the celestial moment. The drug-like rapture of dreams and hopes untold erased the reality of a cold, wet night. But it was time to go. And just as the inevitable consequence of drink is a rotten stomach and polluted brain, so I fear a night of undiluted hope may be wrecked by harsh sobriety...
...moral of this story remains untold. With their adamantine enemy suddenly broken, liberal democracies found themselves groping after the certainties that their peers of 100 years ago had taken for granted. The tools for engineering longer, more comfortable lives have increased exponentially, but the ends for which such improvements are intended are still unclear. More shopping malls? Ever greater material abundance ripped from a depleted earth? All of this has sharpened and brought into higher focus a question as old as the dawn of philosophy: What is life for and why are we here to lead it? Thanks to this...
...pavilion. Twenty feet below the surface, the diggers uncovered a few human skeletons, then a few more -- and then more still. Archaeologists quickly found that this was no commonplace graveyard but one that early colonial maps called the "Negros Burial Ground," the interment site, from 1710 to 1790, of untold numbers of African slaves and some white paupers. As of last week, the remains of more than 400 bodies had been unearthed...