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...life unknowable to most women. It is a life in which bemuscled, race-car-driving aristocrats pursue glamorous heroines and in which couples with little need for frequent-flyer mileage cavort from grand Euro- capital to grand Euro-capital, proving that love blossoms best in those cities where a branch of Cartier may be found...
...concerned about Zhirinovsky than I am about the kind of environment that produces him. Zhirinovsky only says in public what's on the mind of many politicians and government officials in Russia. What really concerns me is that Zhirinovsky meets no ((official)) opposition, nobody opposes him in the legislative branch. I have asked Yeltsin to take a stand against these xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements. I must know where the state stands on this issue. Zhirinovsky's maniacal concepts reflect, in fact, the traditional goal of Russian imperialists to reach the Indian Ocean. As far as they are concerned...
...though Zametkin himself is quite cautious. A newer study used another tool -- magnetic resonance imaging -- to compare the brains of 18 ADHD boys with those of other children and found several "very subtle" but "striking" anatomical differences, says co-author Judith Rapoport, chief of the child psychiatry branch at NIMH. Says Zametkin: "I'm absolutely convinced that this disorder has a biological basis, but just what it is we cannot...
...Italian immigrants, Panetta grew up in Monterey, California, where his parents owned and ran a small cafe that served Calabrian fare to Army troops at Fort Ord. Panetta attended the University of Santa Clara for his undergraduate and law degrees and afterward joined the Army, serving in the intelligence branch. He came to Washington in 1966 as an aide to a Republican Senator and, after the 1968 election, became Richard Nixon's chief civil rights officer at the old Health, Education and Welfare Department. When Panetta aggressively sought to coerce Southern school districts into complying with court-ordered busing plans...
...other tracks, the Beasties branch out from rap. There are several slick, funk-inspired instrumentals (Ricky's Theme, Transitions), and a couple of stale punk-influenced songs (Tough Guy, Heart Attack Man). There's also the hovering sense that there are about a zillion bands on the planet that are better at funk and punk than the Beastie Boys. One of those groups is Soul Asylum...