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President Reagan's bout with colon cancer [NATION, July 29] has left everyone wondering how he or she might be affected by a similar condition and what preventive action to take. History may record that one of the greatest benefits of the Reagan presidency was the decline in colon cancer. Jack Blankley Los Angeles...
...Senator William Cohen put it last week, pondering the world of espionage is akin to stepping "into an infinite line of mirrors where it's impossible to detect reality from reflection." The world may never even learn the ultimate fate of Yurchenko, who is now probably undergoing another heavy bout of debriefing, this time, of course, by the KGB. "Yurchenko will go home to a hero's welcome, be put on the lecture circuit there, and then, when nobody's looking, be shot--if he's lucky," predicts a senior official of the U.S. intelligence community. That scenario assumes...
...preliminary pageant and it rained heavily in San Juan on the night she was named Miss Puerto Rico. Deborah Carthy-Deu, 19, paid no attention to those omens. Like any self-respecting teen, she was impressed with the fact that the last of her facial marks from a bout with chicken pox cleared up two days before the deciding pageant in Puerto Rico. From there she was on a roll, and last week in Miami she became the 34th Miss Universe, the second time a Puerto Rican has won the crown. "I used to sit in front...
Billie Joe Armstrong in “next Bono” shockah!! Wears mostly black now, says “zieg heil and “kill the fags” in his songs but doesn’t mean it, except for ironically. Gets snotty ‘bout the government and keeps trying to roll with the media’s unsupported notion that American Idiot is somehow a political album. Amerie’s “One Thing” is better because the guitars sound like guitars instead of cardboard...
...Crimson’s pitching situation is further complicated by junior Michele McAteer’s recent bout with tendinitis. Desperate to get some work in, McAteer entered the second game of the double-header against Rhode Island on Tuesday, with limited success...