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...Dance were early summer's anthems. There is no getting away from Every Breath You Take, with its whipcrack rhythms and cool, insinuating lyrics, and there is no wanting to, either. The song, and the album it comes from, are like a strange balm, at first soothing to hear, then more disturbing and more memorable. This is rock music that is not only canny commerciality, but has high and serious ambition intellectually. It isn't often, after a11, that Carl Jung hits the top of the charts...
Shagari's leadership is widely acknowledged to have been an effective balm for the country after a turbulent decade in which Nigeria was racked by three military coups and a bloody civil war. He has promoted a spirit of unity by evenhandedly distributing federal funds to the country's 19 states, regardless of which party is in local control. In an effort to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food, Shagari launched a "green revolution," an ambitious rural development program. He has also made education a top priority; hundreds of new schools have been built since he came...
...similar to that in Poland, during the rest of the 1980s. "The Soviet imperial system is suffering from a sickness, a deep systemic crisis," says Bialer. "For the Kremlin, Poland is not a cold, but pneumonia." With their stagnant economy, the Soviets will not be able to apply the balm of aid to their satellite states. This, in turn, could plunge the fragile economies of Eastern Europe into even deeper trouble...
...minute private session with Suzuki, Reagan expressed his appreciation for the trade concession and tried to apply diplomatic balm to other sore spots: tie described the ship collision as "tragic" and promised to consult Japan fully on future matters of mutual concern. As the President later put it to Suzuki: "The best way to handle difficulties is to pick up the phone." The two leaders apparently managed to establish a warm, personal rapport. Said Suzuki at the White House dinner: "We were born in the same year and are both proud of being a youthful 70," though the President...
...three elders of the network Sanhedrin came into the sight of the Lord God, and they begged for his blessing. And God said: "You do not deserve my blessing. For your local newscasters bray like the jackal in the field, and your prime-time soaps are as the balm of Gomorrah, and your sitcoms are in violation of all that is funny. And you, O elders of cathode, you lusteth after false profits." And the three elders saith unto the Lord God: "Forgive us, O Lord, but we must make offerings to the false idol Nielsen, which is an hungry...