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Microsoft Bookshelf This handy reference guide puts a dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, atlas, quotation book and Internet directory a mere mouse click away. ($54.95; Microsoft...
...Pope John Paul II a "polack" in the article. "It's time to get out the wet noodle and give myself 40 lashes," read a statement. "I should not have used a slang term for Polish. It was poor judgment, and I apologize." Landers, who once topped a World Almanac poll as the most influential woman in the United States, may be issuing more statements soon. In the profile, Geraldo Rivera Rivera comes off as "trashy," President John F. Kennedy as "the womanizer from hell" and Eleanor Roosevelt as "a big woman. I was amazed when...
Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...
...guess that's OK, too. But when the Farmer's Almanac predicts an even harsher winter this year each of the last two, you know damn well that anti-freeze and a good shovel come first, hopes of human kindness a distant second...
Which will be an even more dismal scenario this time around. The Almanac says it's going to be a tough than usual few months ahead for us, and for both the American sportsman and the American fan, it's destined to be a much tougher grind from November through February...