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...Baltimores National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary will host the kick-off concert in the Roman Catholic Church's tribute series to the birth of Jesus Christ...
...Iran's revolution financed its first decade through oil revenues, but collapsing crude prices combined with massive unemployment among a burgeoning youth population have made kick-starting the economy - with a large dose of Western investment - a critical priority, a fact that has moved even such stalwarts of the revolution as former president Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani into the pro-Khatami coalition. That, of course, is a mixed blessing. "While Rafsanjani's influence could be a major factor in preventing a dangerous backlash by hard-liners after the election," says MacLeod, "he'd be likely to slow down the pace...
...Harvard's library system. "Jump back! It's Harvard's library system!" this packet said in 847 glossy pages. I heard that prototype versions were even fancier: they projected a hologram of President Neil L. Rudenstine beating the president of Yale over the head with Moby Dick and declaring, "Kick the crap out of learning!" Did we really need this? Was there anyone at Harvard unaware that its libraries existed? Harvard's hope must have been that some kid in Stoughton would say, "Well, Hallelujah! I can stop writing all my papers using only the Encyclopedia Britannica and Little House...
...muses about helping the have-nots, but his policies tend to help the have-a-lots. He speaks of universal health care but offers no plan to get anywhere close. And reporters give him leeway because his reputation as a crusader for reform--someone who wants to "kick the big-money boys out of Washington"--is so disarming...
...Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz is gone we have lost not just him but a whole family...