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...WHILE Reagan used symbolism to badger the Soviets into quiessence, he fell into the symbolic sand trap of selling arms to Iran. He failed to see that regardless of any strategic merits of selling arms to the Mullahs, the image of the U.S. supporting a bunch of American-hating fanatics was devastating...
...When you're around a bunch of kids and you're fooling around, you're liable to say anything," said Black Harvard assistant coach Mack Singleton. "Whatever's in their heads, I don't think they're going...
American foreign policy created the contras, a ragtag bunch of political-outs who seem to have more support in Miami than in Managua. The Sandinistas led a successful and legitimate revolution against a heinous dictatorship. Their government is recognized as sovereign by the majority of people in that country as well as the majority of nations in the world. It should by recognized as an equal nation by our nation...
Even so, climate modelers admit, building a completely realistic mock earth is an impossibly tall order. "You divide the world into a bunch of little boxes," explains Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The size of the geographic box -- the degree of detail called for -- limits the model. Smaller grids dramatically increase the number-crunching power required. "The state of the art would be to get down to small areas so we can say what's going to happen in Omaha," says Livermore's Stanley Grotch. "The models just aren't that good...
...only people who could care less about Dogs than the audience are the characters. They are disaffected refugees from the stifling mores of their middle-class parents. Rebellion is a fine thing, but this motley bunch of outcasts replace the materialism and hypocrisy of their bourgeois upbringing with complete apathy--their lives are as messy as their house. Lowenstein wants to be daring by eliminating any entertaining conventions of movie-making and we're supposed to be hip enough not to care. But if the stream of people beating a retreat out of the theatre was any evidence, not caring...