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...nick of time. Countries that jostled one another to provide safe havens after the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen demonstrations eventually lost interest in taking in little-known dissidents who might jeopardize their delicate relations with Beijing. Now at least eight countries have grudgingly accepted the last batch. France accepted the first dissident late last year, followed by the Netherlands, which accepted two more. Sweden, Denmark and Norway are in line to take a handful, with three more on their way to Canada. But they all--particularly Britain, which has agreed to take 10 to 15 dissidents--want to limit...
...slightly oddball but deadly serious. The power of the powerless is shaking Eastern Europe again as tens of thousands of Bulgarians fill the streets of Sofia each day to show just how fed up they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says...
...politicians running for national office may have finished spending their millions of dollars last month, but we appear to have our own batch of ambitious politicians seeking a significantly lower office on the national scale: that of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council presidency...
...average, one batch of beer costs between $100 to $130 and makes about five to five-and-a-half cases. Jeff Pzena estimates that making beer at home costs between $10 and $15 per case, while brewing a case at The Modern Brewer costs about...
...pilot episode for the Ted Danson-Mary Steenburgen comedy was finished, the people involved could scarcely contain their lack of enthusiasm. Danson, at a press conference, said he didn't want to "disclaim the baby" but promised the show would improve. Steenburgen likened the series to making a batch of pancakes: sometimes "you throw out the first." A few weeks later CBS tossed out all four episodes completed up to that point, fired the producer and delayed the premiere for a month so the show could be retooled. Said CBS Entertainment chief Leslie Moonves: "It is better...