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...exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong, it's between me and God." The ringmaster-moderator is 23-year-old Mud Baron. He claims police are secretly taping the debate from a nearby building because they fear concerts attract a bad element: "But I can't get one of them to come down here and tell kids to stay off drugs...
...setback left business leaders and jet-setters abuzz over the billionaire's misfortunes. Says Baron Edmond de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking dynasty: "Karim, like so many others, has been caught in a cyclical downturn more severe than any we have seen in Europe since the end of World...
...stampede. When unexpected reports of inflation caused the price to rise again last week, it just seemed to confirm his legendary nose for the market. After all, this was the man who led the raid on the Bank of England during last September's European currency crisis, a robber baron, as some called him, who emerged with profits estimated at $2 billion by selling sterling short...
Gays, Shilts notes with confidence, have served well since the American Revolution, although his evidence for Baron von Steuben's predilections does not support the designation "gay general." But even if the baron had ridden sidesaddle into Valley Forge, it is unlikely that he would have been turned away. George Washington desperately needed his Prussian expertise...
Haste eventually fails for one of Diana's suitors, Baron Waste, a Scottish officer whose role in the plot is never quite clear. Haste and Waste finally get together in a long dungeon scene, the most tedious of the show...