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Discovering the truth about Lyndon Johnson is like conducting a monstrous archaeological dig, with authors desperately collecting the shards from his mountainous record. Some are intent on assembling the dark glints, while others gather points of light. Joseph Califano, his closest aide on domestic policy for 3 1/2 years, has delivered a hard, pure nugget of L.B.J. that is close to the truth. Califano was there taking notes...
Last week's session was not intended to resolve all the issues. It provided a forum for the participants to state their opening positions and to figure out how to take the next step. Before adjourning on Saturday, the convention adopted a "declaration of intent" vowing to achieve democracy. The delegates also set up working groups that will begin meeting next month on questions like the basic principles of a new constitution and the nature of a transitional government. The groups plan to report to another session of the convention in mid-March...
Which does not by any means ensure that the commonwealth will prevail, or even get itself truly organized. Its founding charter is not much more than a vaguely worded statement of intent. Its members must now actually define the policies they will pursue and form mechanisms to ensure that they really are coordinated. The alliance -- it is not really a state -- was not even a week old before its first potentially serious fissure appeared. While Yeltsin assured Soviet military leaders that the armed forces would remain under unified command, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk proclaimed that all army units...
...holiday celebrations. "These things are going to happen, just as they have with Christmas, Chinese New Year and Hanukkah," says Tulivu Jadi, an official at the African American Cultural Center in Los Angeles. "But there is still a community -- and not a small one -- that observes the serious intent of the holiday." This year the center is collecting food and clothing for the homeless, another way to spread the true joys of Kwanzaa...
Llopis, however, did not sign a contract with F.C. Barcelona to play basketball, nor did he take an agent, two actions that would have clearly shown intent to play professionally, Harvard contends...