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...After the stock-market crash, the press plays taps. The Wall Street Journal declares, "Yuppies have become a bore and . . . Madison Avenue is trying to wipe them...
...century-old traditions of the school. She was elected vice president of her senior class and excelled in English. But Cary also tried marijuana for the first time the night before an exam. And she actively avoided blending into the "alien" white culture--Cary "took the offensive and bore my gifts proudly" in conversations about race...
...over the past two years, replaced property taxes as a source of funding for local government. It was intended to make high-spending local councils, mostly Labour-controlled, accountable to the public by ensuring that every adult, not just property owners, paid directly for local services. But the tax bore no relation to ability to pay; within a locality every adult was charged the same amount, although millions of poor people got rebates. Resentment boiled over into a major riot in Trafalgar Square...
...life cycle of a TV sensation can be stunningly quick: from talk-of-the- tube to zap-inducing bore in just a few weeks' time. A look at the trajectory of TV's meteoric names...
...striking ones: about 40 Iraqis tried to surrender to an RPV, turning round and round, waving their arms as the pilotless drone circled above. An Iraqi tank and another armored vehicle bore down on a U.S. Humvee driven by a lone soldier and stuck helplessly in mud. The Iraqi vehicles pulled the Humvee out of the mire; then their crews surrendered to its driver...