Word: ideas
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...earmarked for five countries: Israel ($3 billion), Egypt ($2.1 billion), Turkey ($610 million), the Philippines ($360 million) and Pakistan ($490 million). Cutting aid to Israel is too sensitive an issue for most lawmakers, and aid to Egypt has been inviolate since the 1978 Camp David accords. Dole's idea may be politically inexpedient, but it underlines the need for flexibility at a time of rapid change...
...acerbic manservant (John Neville). At the bottom is the chain-smoking Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed), who lives in a trailer with her chubby daughter and works as a maid. Somewhere in between is Weldon's niece (Bonnie Hunt) and her upwardly mobile husband (Michael McKean), who has an idea for saving Weldon Piano Works (make golf clubs instead) and a yen for the maid...
While the idea of outing a fellow gay used to be considered repellent under any circumstances, the tactic has become increasingly acceptable to mainstream homosexual leaders. It is practiced by some gay publications, and its propriety has even been debated in the corridors of Congress. Last June, when Republicans falsely implied that House Speaker Tom Foley was gay, Representative Barney Frank threatened to expose Republican officeholders who really are homosexual. Few in Washington doubted that there were such officials, or that Frank, an acknowledged gay, would be able to name them. Republicans were already keenly aware of the ironic fates...
Still, many gays and sympathetic straights remain troubled by the idea of outing, even if used only against the movement's avowed enemies. Says Sarah Craig, an associate editor of Chicago's gay-oriented Windy City Times: "Really, you're only using the same bludgeon used to injure you to injure someone else." As a practical matter, moreover, if outing a closeted gay ends his or her career, there is rarely any reason to believe that the target's successor will be more sympathetic to the gay cause. Nonetheless, some prominent gays favor forcing every closeted person to come...
...know, Time Inc. Magazines will launch a new magazine in February titled ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. On pages 37 through 48 is a supplement that will give you some idea of what the new magazine will be like...