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...talk of the whole country is the economy; the survival of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani could depend on how well he handles economic problems and the discontent they breed. No one is suggesting he could lose his re- election bid in voting scheduled for June 11, but his personal survival may be at risk. There were reports of an assassination attempt on the President last February, and full-blown riots swept three major cities last year during protests against unemployment and poor housing...
...even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid or cut down on prison time...
Like summer rock concerts, summer movies will offer volume, volume, volume. More than 60 pictures will clog the cinemas. Paramount production chief Sherry Lansing is counting on hit films to breed other hits. "If people can't get into a popular film," she says, "they don't go home; they go to another one instead." But what movie to go to? In this summer swarm, you can't tell the major players without a scorecard. Here's ours...
...members. Lately they have been split over free speech and hate speech, sexual harassment and the Rodney King beating, the same arguments that have divided other Americans. One essential conflict is between strict libertarians, for whom individual rights are as sacred as Moses' tablets, and new-breed egalitarians who favor minority and feminist causes and are more willing to see civil liberties give ground in the name of justice and equality...
...Crimeds--The only evidence of this mythical species is a nest on Plympton street. There have only been few reported sightings of Crimeds, mainly by other species who claim to have entered the nest. Though rumored to be the most highly adapted breed, you'll probably never meet...