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...often happens in the Middle East, there was a last-minute hitch. Sources in Damascus confirm that Anderson's release was delayed seven hours because a hard-line faction within Islamic Jihad advocated holding on to him as a bargaining chip. Anderson was freed only after fundamentalist leaders reined in the dissident faction...
...rubes out in radioland believed everything they heard, and some of the performers did too. Dad Benson ladled out cow-chip philosophy on or off mike, effortlessly spooning out such nifties as "East or west, home is best. There's no summer without winter . . . Hunger makes the beans taste better." But Marjery Moore, who played sweet, 10-year-old Little Becky on Dad's show until she was a raunchy 29, was a Camel-smoking delinquent who learned "within days of coming on Friendly Neighbor that she could get a big rise out of the radio folks by saying things...
...eliminate the pretense and sell Harvard MBAs to the highest bidders, regardless of merit. Investment bankers will shell out big-bucks down payments--plus guaranteed percentages of their future earnings--to reserve two-year vacations at the already well-endowed Shangri-La across the river. Their companies will probably chip in, too--hey, prestige is prestige...
...Erin is a real blue-chip goal-tender," Dooley said. "And if you have a goalie, you can play this game...
Politics, in any case, is monopolized mainly by vociferous gay organizations, gangs of neoprohibitionists and, of course, the ever resentful ecomaniacs, who have forsaken chocolate chip ice cream for Rainforest Crunch and who insist that the city's unspeakable degenerates (cigarette smokers) ask permission before they light up outside. While the city drifts, the board of supervisors issues wacky foreign policy statements. During the gulf war, the board declared the town a nuclear-free haven for draft dodgers. Across the bay in Berkeley it's even daffier: along with Fidel Castro, the city council is all that is left...