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Life's a Riot With Spy Versus Spy Etc. (Go-Disk Records) by Billy Bragg: Billy Bragg takes a bit of getting used to. He plays an unaccompanied electric guitar and sings as if he has a pound of cotton jammed in each nostril. After the ear has become accustomed...
For a holy man, it was a world of trouble. There, in a third-floor medical cell of the Mecklenburg County jail in Charlotte, N.C., sat Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh last week, facing 35 counts of conspiring to violate immigration laws. Back home in Rajneeshpuram, Ore., where he ran a 1...
Constructive solutions to the problems of toxic dumping and acid rain are in everyone's interest, and you had better believe that the average urban worker cares about them. There are 1000 Superfund dumpsites in Massachusetts alone, and only 300 towns. Local and state public-interest groups have had enormous...
Opposition figures for the most part greeted the new crackdown with cool defiance. "We are already accustomed to the laws of repression, so we plan to go on as before," said Erik Ramirez, president of the Social Christian Party. Echoing that feeling was Luis Rivas Leiva, secretary- general of the...
Customers like the megadealers because they generally offer lower prices and a staggering supply of cars. At Robert Ciasulli's 14-acre Arrow Auto Mall in Little Falls, N.J., shoppers can select from cars made by GM, Chrysler, AMC and Renault. The experience, though, may be disorienting for those accustomed...