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...briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
Millionaire carpet-bagger spends $, wins Calif. Senate primary...
...bolstered by the dramatic success of Western air forces in the Gulf War. There is little question that modern U.S. fighters, rapidly brought up to 500, can quickly clear the skies of North Korea's large but obsolescent squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-17 fighters. B-52s would carpet-bomb Pyongyang's advancing troops 12 hours after they crossed the DMZ. While there are only 72 U.S. F-16s in the South now, warplanes from Japan, Alaska and nearby carriers would arrive within hours of an attack, including the cream of the U.S. arsenal: radar-eluding F- 117A Stealth...
...what these French seek to prevent, others call a dream come true--the emergence of a universal culture. Should we really by trying to stop this phenomenon or should we be rolling out the red carpet and celebrating its arrival? Or does what is happening in France indicate the ugly truth that a universal culture can never exist because each country will fight to preserve...
...preferred to settle in secret and hush up scandal. According to a well-placed church insider, over the past quarter-century, at least five U.S. Catholic bishops were accused of sexual involvement with boys under 18. In each instance the bishop was deemed guilty by officialdom, called on the carpet but not removed from his post. Information about each case was restricted to a small circle of church officials in Rome and the U.S. Today the hierarchy can still resist suggestions to learn more about pedophilia. For example, there are no good data on pedophile recidivism. Dr. Leslie Lothstein...