Word: bowles
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...sharks, slicing off their fins and tossing the maimed creatures back into the ocean to die. Dried fins, which fetch up to $117 per kg ($53 per lb.) in Asian markets, are used to make shark-fin soup, a gelatinous delicacy that sells for as much as $50 a bowl in a fine Hong Kong restaurant...
Short of summoning the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to belt out the Horst Wessel Song in the Hollywood Bowl, the museum has spared no efforts to sample the culture of the time as vividly as possible for an audience to whom the Third Reich is, at most, a remote and unwelcome memory. And the catalog, with its essays by Barron and other hands, German scholars as well as American ones, is certain to remain the definitive study of Nazi cultural repression for many years to come...
...week closing of the Folies-Bergere in Paris, John McEnroe's dropping out of a tennis match in Milan, the pricing of the video release of Ghosts at $100 instead of $19.95, and the New York Giants' refusal to take part in Mayor David Dinkins' Super Bowl victory celebration...
Arizona has an image problem. Almost three years ago, Governor Evan Mecham was impeached for misusing state funds. Last November voters turned down a , referendum to make Martin Luther King Day a paid state holiday, touching off boycotts that may deprive Arizona of the 1993 Super Bowl. Last week a major political scandal rocked the state as a grand jury charged seven legislators, five lobbyists and five others with felonies including bribery, money laundering and filing false campaign statements...
...point is that the pro-war side does not have a monopoly on Americanism, patriotism or support for the troops, despite the fact that they are waving the flag hardest or that they organized an incredibly nationalistic Super Bowl halftime. The true American has a duty and an obligation to speak his or her mind...