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this Christmas, in 1941, Bing Crosby introduced Irving Berlin's White Christmas to the public on his NBC radio show, the Kraft Music Hall. The song captured a yearning for home in the midst of World War II. Two years later, Bing followed with another enduring hit, I'll Be Home for Christmas. Add those other familycentered holiday favorites, [There's No Place Like] Home for the Holidays and Over the River and Through the Woods, and it becomes clear that musical longing for a family circle abounds.But in a mobile age, families and circumstances change. Children grow up and leave for college and distant jobs. They marry and establish homes of their own. Grandparents move to Sun Belt condos. Christmas gets reconfigured. Flexibility is paramount.What a contrast to the stability Dylan Thomas celebrates in A Child's Christmas in Wales. He begins, One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the seatown corner ... that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was 12 or w
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 arge, private architectural bureau. They will see deserted industrial zones, roads snarled with traffic jams, dilapidated housing estates, and depleted green zones. The wheel itself will further disfigure Moscow's skyline and become yet another standing joke.Luzhkov has been praised for repairing Moscow's notoriously bad roads and building new ones. But the rest of the city's vital infrastructure, particularly its underground sewers, pipes, and building foundations, are reportedly in a state of nearcollapse. Apart from the roads, there is little being done to keep Moscow afloat, says Dmitri Stoyanov, an architect who works for a federal government engineering design workshop. At the same time, there are some wild projects like this Ferris wheel, that appear to be about politics rather than sound urban planning.Luzhkov's monumental projects of the past decade all of which will be clearly visible from the peak of the Rus3000 include the Church of Christ the Savior, a $300million reconstruction of a cavernous ca
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 ic Park Area Inc. She's hobnobbed with Jack Kemp when he was secretary of Housing and Urban Development and also has a close working relationship with Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell.Whatever group she affiliates herself with, she gravitates to the top, says Joe Beasley, a highranking member of the influential Antioch Baptist Church North, where Lawson attends and has served on its board. She's a very strong and committed leader, a proven leader both inside and outside her community.Being judgedCritics have focused on her years in public housing and wondered if she will be beholden to players such as Mr. Beasley and Mayor Campbell who have helped her achieve what she has.We know that she describes herself as a paid community organizer of Herndon Homes, writes Atlanta commentator Dick Williams. Paid by whomIs she a political operativeA conduit for street money?As MARTA chairwoman, she'll be paid $75 per meeting, the same rate as other board members. The board meets once a month.Lawson stresses that her role as cha
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 st executive there are hundreds for whom ethics do not have to be thrust aside in a culture of greed.John Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, is editor and chief operating officer of the Deseret News.During his candidacy, Mr. Bush and his advisers attacked the Clinton administration for neglecting the armed forces and exacerbating alreadylow levels of military readiness by overextending troops abroad. In particular, Bush focused on some 11,000 US soldiers in the Balkans, who are keeping the peace after wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Bush said he would move to withdraw those troops because the region isn't a central US interest.A closer look, however, reveals a complex situation that could affect at least two key US concerns: Europe and Russia. And Bush is already toning down his statements about withdrawing from the Balkans.He's not going to cut and run, said Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas last week, after she and other lawmakers met with the presidentelect to discuss national security issues.Yet
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