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...political cartoonist for the magazine L'Express, was commissioned by Culture Minister Jack Lang as part of a program to promote French sculpture. Tim wanted the bronze to be placed in the courtyard of L'Ecole Militaire, the academy where in 1895 Dreyfus was stripped of his rank for allegedly passing secrets to the Germans. But Defense Minister Charles Hernu rejected the idea, claiming that the courtyard is not a public place...
Results from bi-annual elections for the Cambridge City Council and the seven-member School Committee take about a week to be tabulated. That's because 40 years ago the city adopted a complicated system of proportional representation whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference--one, two, three...
Nevertheless, the Church of England's policymaking General Synod last week overwhelmingly endorsed the ordination of women as deacons, the clergy's lowest rank, which is beneath priests and bishops. If Parliament agrees, as seems likely, the church's 350 deaconesses, who are not ordained, can take their place alongside male deacons, performing marriages and assisting priests in other ways. Priests will continue to be the only celebrants of Holy Communion and dispensers of absolution. The pressure will be great, however, to allow the women deacons to advance to the next step, priesthood...
...business strongholds that newcomers build are as varied as the immigrants. In Miami, Cubans play an important role in the local financial community. More than 400 Cuban-born executives hold the rank of vice president or higher in Miami's banks. "I'd say we control between 15% and 20% of the Miami banking industry," says Carlos Arboleya, 56, a former Havana banker now vice chairman of the Barnett Bank of South Florida (assets: $3.5 billion...
...send covert-action hit teams or employ local agents to strike at terrorist squads. But American inability to keep secrets, and moral qualms about adopting the terrorists' own tactics, make that difficult if not impossible. The only certainty seems to be that for the foreseeable future, countering terrorism will rank second only to preventing nuclear war among the problems of assuring the survival of a free and stable society...