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Pasolini did not even approach the world of film-making until he was nearly forty years old, already one of Italy's most respected poets. His overabundance of artistic activity and his need to express his many, often conflicting, cultural, artistic, and political points of view followed Pasolini throughout his life. They lead to the contradictions and ambiguities which permeated not only Pasolini's personal life, but also, it seems, his every work...
Even before the loss of traffic to the Internet and related technologies, government-operated mail service was losing the overnight letter- and parcel- delivery businesses to firms such as Federal Express and United Parcel Service. So far the post office has held its own because of the growing volume of mail between businesses and homes, mainly catalogs, credit-card offers, bills and payments. But as more private citizens get computer- connected, even that revenue source will face fierce competition from electronic shopping and banking services. America Online, for example, gives its members access to a service called 2Market, allowing them...
...preparation is coming into practice not only among Catholics but also among churchgoers of all denominations across America. Last November clergy in the Louisville, Kentucky, area became the 26th religious coalition in the U.S. to adopt standard premarital procedures that, in the words of the Kentuckiania Marriage Task Force, express "the seriousness with which we view marriage and the preparation we are convinced is vital." Says Michael McManus, author of the 1993 Marriage Savers and a national leader of this particular bandwagon: "We're preventing bad marriages. If it is the job of a church to bond couples for life...
...Gibson and his cronies on the 64-member board of directors. According to several board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside the organization as Gibson's ``special friend''; extra hotel rooms at N.A.A.C.P. conventions, at which Gibson had already been provided with free accommodations; and $126,000 for limousines...
...said Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, as Denver International Airport prepared to open Tuesday -- 16 months late, $3.2 billion over budget and with underground carts tugging baggage every which way as most of a computerized system continues to malfunction. At 12:41 a.m. Monday, the first commercial flight (a Federal Express plane) touched down. The jokes started again, though, when a snowstorm developed later in the day, threatening to force the airport to close before the first passenger jet arrives Tuesday at 6 a.m. As for the baggage system, designed to allow easy check-ins as late as 20 minutes before...