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...first week in July, the Miami Herald showed up: "Henry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bar. In addition to Scotch on the rocks or plain cranberry juice, the thirsty can get a few holy words from the proprietor." Then came the television crews. Dare not to be novel in the dog days of summer, the parishioners quickly learned, getting a little testy. By fall the thing had blown over...
...size of the audience, say critics, is just the trouble: the enormous stakes make the debates highly artificial events bearing little if any resemblance to a genuine debate. Candidates who dare not take the risk of quizzing each other insist on a panel of journalists to pose the questions, which they usually answer with rehearsed minispeeches that may have little relation to what was asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist...
After all the furor over Vanessa Williams and the image she tarnished for young Americans, how do you dare print the photo of the men Olympic swimmers without their trunks [PEOPLE, Oct. 1]? It is typical of the double standard in our society. Boys will be boys, but girls had better be ladies...
...participating in the protest of Weinberger. The simple statement "Behold, our butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate to be expelled for insubordination in 1766. But although the food may have improved in the last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. If you dare declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte recketh.." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, you may be tossed out of school...
...hundred Shi'ites. But they enjoy the passive support of much of the population, especially in the impoverished farming villages. In southern Lebanese villages like Marakah, for example, a call to arms is frequently broadcast from mosques. "Kill the Israelis! Death to the invaders!" loudspeakers intone. Israeli troops dare to enter some villages only in force, and their armored cars and Jeeps bristling with machine guns are inevitably greeted by jeers from women and children...