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...Staff, does not think so. "Our mission has not changed from the beginning," he insists. "We have just changed our capabilities and adjusted our procedures slightly, consistent with the changed circumstances on the ground." Retorts Senate Republican leader Bob Dole: "This is not just mission creep; it's mission leap...
Overall, this past Saturday can be considered a small step for each Ivy team toward successful season, and a huge leap for the entire conference...
...even ventured to think, is that sex can finally, after all these centuries, be separated from the all-too-serious business of reproduction. Technology has made it possible to uncouple sex and babymaking; ecology has made it necessary. Now all that remains is for us to make the cultural leap to an ecologically responsible sexual ethic. This means, at a minimum, guaranteeing contraception, with abortion as a backup, to all who might need it. But it also means telling our teenagers the hard ecological truth -- which is probably also the best news they could get -- that sex, in our overpopulated...
...enjoying their government subsidies, have forgotten. The human voice is attached to a living being; it is not a mechanical instrument. It has a well-defined range within which it (and the listener) is most comfortable; and it is best suited to singing stepwise melodies rather than tunes that leap crazily all over the scale, except for dramatic effect. Honoring these principles is not pandering; it is professionalism, and The Dangerous Liaisons is its glorious expression...
...wholesale leap into revolving credit is a gutsy move for American Express, whose recent ads have featured Jerry Seinfeld musing adenoidally about what the company has referred to in less lighthearted moments as the "evils of debt trap." AmEx's own maiden voyage into revolving credit -- with the launch of the Optima card in 1987 -- resulted in a plastic meltdown. The program quickly racked up $1.5 billion in unpaid charges, a figure twice the industry average, according to Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research Corp. Since March 1992, when the loss rate peaked at 12%, AmEx has wrestled bum credit...