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...Boorda was in distress, no one seemed to know. He was a career Navy man, a native of South Bend, Indiana, who enlisted at 17 (lying that he was 18 so he could get in) to escape a troubled childhood and an alcoholic father. He married at 18, and his first child, David, was born with a rare congenital condition that causes a malformation of limbs and organs. (By his fourth birthday, David had had 17 operations.) Boorda served two tours of duty in Vietnam and worked his way up the ranks, commanding surface ships and serving in various Pentagon...
...spite of all the whirling lunacy they concocted, Melrose writers still kept a hand in the world of plausible fantasy--the bend-don't-break rule that is the essence of soap-opera craft. The writers also understood that soaps must always have, at their core, at least one pair of earnest lovers whose thwarted longing fuels the drama. Melrose has Billy and Alison, lovers too personalityless to be destined for any other. Last year we cared whether they would beat gargantuan odds--Alison's alcoholism, her affair with an N.F.L. sex addict--and find their way back into each...
...they did, 17-15, for their first victory in South Bend since 1961. When the Wildcats lost to Miami of Ohio 30-28, they looked like a fluke, but then they beat Michigan 19-13 in Ann Arbor (for the first time since '59) and Penn State 21-10. Northwestern finished the regular season at 10-1 but seemed headed for the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, until Michigan upset unbeaten Ohio State, thus making Northwestern the No. 3 team in the country and the representative of the Big Ten's 11 teams in the Rose Bowl on New Year...
...collaborated on a remarkable achievement. When they began negotiations 21 days before, as political enemies and former battlefield foes, they carried with them lists of unyielding demands and untouchable interests. In the isolation of the air base and under the unrelenting hectoring of mediating diplomats, they began slowly to bend and then to compromise in the interest of fashioning a peace. By the time they left last Tuesday, all of them had accepted much they had sworn they never would, and had agreed to end a war that has killed untold thousands and left nearly 3 million homeless. Not least...
That outcome was virtually assured last week when Republicans loaded up two stopgap bills, one to continue government spending and another to extend borrowing authority, with extra provisions they knew the President would not accept. The question now becomes who will bend after what will probably be a series of presidential vetoes. Emboldened by polls showing public opinion running nearly 2 to 1 against the G.O.P. budget, Clinton aides believe, as senior adviser George Stephanopoulos says, that "the bottom is falling out for the Republicans." That may be wishful thinking, but the idea of a prolonged showdown no longer worries...