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...presents both Bush and Kerry with special challenges. Kerry not only has to walk a line between his personal faith--that of the 11-year-old altar boy who used to write his sister to remind her to say her prayers--and the more secular leanings of his core voters. He also faces a small squad of conservative Catholic bishops who say they would refuse to serve Communion to politicians who, like Kerry, reject the church's teachings on issues such as abortion. One has gone so far as to suggest that any unrepentant Catholic who even votes for such...
...they all must do so for it to take effect, those who reject may find the others devise a way to go on without them. Charles Grant, the pro-E.U. director of the Centre for European Reform in London, thinks France, Germany and several others will form a core group determined to integrate harder and faster. "The whole point for them is the institutions, not specific policies," he says. Assuming the E.U. continues as is, they will vote as a bloc inside it, begin to integrate in foreign affairs, justice and taxation, and start to isolate the refuseniks...
...they were being shortchanged and criticized the sale as an effort to benefit insiders. Led by shareholder and Hong Kong stock-market watchdog David Webb, they tried to block the restructuring, but narrowly lost a vote. "Christmas is canceled," Webb lamented. That left Kao's animation unit as the core of the company. "What do these guys know about the animation business?" Webb asked...
Within days of the death in late May of Umberto Agnelli, the patriarch of one of Italy's leading business families, Giuseppe Morchio made his move. As mourners continued to pay their last respects, the chief executive of the Fiat auto and truck company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well...
...replaced a President who had talked of America's malaise and proceeded to speak of its destiny and greatness, notions that had been dismissed as naive or arrogant. Talk of America as a shining city on a hill was long out of fashion, but it was a core belief of Reagan's, and it is no accident that it animates the man who occupies the White House now. George W. Bush, though a President's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. Long after Reagan had retreated from the public eye behind the veil...