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...candidates about whom the public and press know little, since negative revelations can easily shatter their tenuous popularity. The latest example: Clinton, who was declared a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination before the New Hampshire primary but then was staggered by bombshells about his alleged extramarital affairs, draft status and experiment with marijuana...
...major reason for the failure, say other directors, is that Perot never tried to build coalitions within the board or even to draft a detailed plan for reform; he just carped and nagged. A senior executive who agreed with many of his criticisms says he was rebuffed when he tried to work with Perot. His explanation: "I learned that you can't be 90% for Ross Perot. You have to be with him all the way." GM in 1986 got so fed up with Perot that it paid him $700 million for his stock just...
...latest episode unfolds this week when the U.S. hierarchy meets at the University of Notre Dame. The bishops have set aside a full afternoon to air their views on an 81-page third draft of the proposed letter. As the bishops deliberate, the campus will provide space for a simultaneous gathering of liberal caucuses that are dissatisfied with the church, its all-male priesthood and its reigning Pontiff, John Paul II. The counterconference will feature an ersatz Mass, celebrated by women...
During this arduous process, voices of complaint from American women have been weeded out of the text and papal pronouncements brought to the fore. The current draft proclaims sexism to be a sin, in church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls...
...developments for the party, union and republican authorities; now there are just 19. Still, in trying to respond as quickly as possible to the constant barrage of daily crises, Yeltsin's men have inadvertently created a bureaucratic jumble of their own, superimposing new agencies on top of old ones. Draft laws and decrees circulate among the government ministries, Golovkov's administration and a third, separate state legal bureau. Explains Justice Minister Fedorov: "We are experimenting with new institutions. Many will not survive the test of time...