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...will take education, not just laws, to halt what Africans view as a symbol of their culture. Asks Birhane Ras-Work, president of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices: "How do you eradicate a tradition that is more powerful than a legal system...
Healthier papers too are questioning the need for some expensive coverage. The Washington Post said last week it will halt a long-standing growth trend in news staff and budget, scrutinize travel more closely and tighten the news space and manpower for nine local weekly sections. The Wall Street Journal announced a budget freeze and limits on news space. Dow Jones chairman Warren Phillips, who built the Journal into a globe-spanning enterprise, told the staff in a memo that "adverse market conditions" would continue, particularly in the U.S., in 1991. Thus, he said, "it's prudent...
...remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most renowned and innovative agriculture researchers, founded the Land Institute in Salina, Kans., in search of perennial prairie grain crops that will halt the wasting of the planet...
Well, not all the fun. As far as we can determine, the Inter-Club council did not halt the male-bonding activities that many members insist are the real reason they join final clubs. No doubt, arm wrestling, watching Super Bowl re-runs and telling lewd jokes will continue late into the night. So too will rap sessions in which members fine tune their resumes before mailing them to their friends' fathers and fathers' friends...
Looking ahead, the steady march toward European unity is not about to grind to a halt. True, the 12 members are divided on some key issues, and a go-slow period may be in the offing. But that has happened before; no matter how alluring the vision or compelling the logic, the United States of Europe remains a distant goal that cannot be hurried even by its most enthusiastic supporters. In bad times as well as good, movement continues because the process has become irreversible...