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They look like Conan's long-lost cousins and even call themselves "the Barbarian Brothers," but David and Peter Paul insist any similarities with other he-men are just slickery skin-deep. "The difference between us and the Stallone-Schwarzenegger muscle-and-machine-gun types is our vulnerability," says Peter. "We are real positive about ourselves. We believe in order to do the impossible, you must see the invisible." Right. But even so, the identical hunks should be quite visible in coming months. Having already done bit flexing in D.C. Cab and The Flamingo Kid, the Pauls are back from...
...powerful is the religion of Sooner football, even a barbarian like this can be championed for the Heisman Trophy. With the country's attention so clearly focused, Michigan State's Lorenzo White, Penn State's D.J. Dozier and Florida's Kerwin Bell suddenly seemed minor candidates, especially after Testaverde completed 21 of 28 passes for 261 yds. and the first four touchdowns scored this season against the defending champions. Bosworth was relatively subdued and was not detected goobering on anyone. Testaverde riddled Oklahoma almost as emphatically last year in Norman, 27-14, but any title claim was lost...
...World War II was winding down, Harriman was one of the first to warn of the Soviet threat to the U.S. After F.D.R.'s death in 1945, Harriman, then Ambassador to Moscow, hurried home to alert President Truman to what he called the "barbarian invasion of Europe." But like others from Wall Street who formed the core of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets...
...just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales have much vitality; they were as pure as toothpaste, and as sexy. How could the Forces of Evil defeat these perfect folk? And how could the modern moviegoer care? Only Conan the Barbarian made much box-office noise, perhaps because it had Attila Schwarzenegger punching out entire races as if he were a Dark Ages "Duke" Wayne...
...seven Mr. Olympia titles (1970-75, 1980). He has given up professional body building to pursue his interests in video and real estate (he holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Wisconsin) and to press on in his career as an actor (Pumping Iron, Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator). He became a U.S. citizen in 1983. "I went back home and realized that I liked my country, but for me America was the better place to be. Everybody thought big in comparison to European thinking. Everyone had great hopes, a positive outlook. There was no limit...