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WILLIAM GREIDER HAS ALL THE credentials to be another Inside-the-Beltway TV- talk-show bore serving up sound-bite-size portions of predictable punditry. Back in 1972 when he was covering the McGovern campaign, Greider was one of Timothy Crouse's original Boys on the Bus. While an editor of the Washington Post, he prompted David Stockman's explosive 1981 confessions that Reaganomics was a fraud. A dogged reporter undeterred by smoke-and-mirrors complexity, Greider plumbed the depths of the Federal Reserve in his 1987 best seller, Secrets of the Temple...
TRADITIONALLY, THE MAY DAY PORTRAITS STARING blankly across Moscow's Red Square were those of the founders of communism -- Marx, Engels and Lenin--and * the current crop of Politburo heavies. Banners bore slogans like GLORY TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION and GLORY TO LABOR. Sic transit glory. This year Moscow has not only dumped the trappings of socialism but hopes to replace them with outright commercialism...
Mailer said a "totalitarianism of a very subtle sort" exists in American, where "freedom is a bore...
...numbers are "approaching 900, and it may even be bore than that," said Patricia B. Callaghan '89, an admissions officer and coordinator for the Visiting Program...
...wind played a major part in the outcome. Wisconsin, racing in the outside lane, bore the brunt of the whitecaps. Washington, meanwhile, raced in the protected inside lane and led from start to finish...