Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some celebrities invest a great deal of money to protect themselves from their fans. Gavin de Becker, who operates a 100-client security service in Los Angeles, charges those who request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone...
...Christ had not even seen the movie. So do we guarantee freedom of speech only for the broad-minded or the better educated? Can one speak only after studying whatever one has reason, from one's beliefs, to denounce? Then most of us would be doing a great deal less speaking than we do. If one has never seen any snuff movies, is that a bar to criticizing them...
That possibility was on his mind for months, well before the Rangers deal came down at him with the speed of a Nolan Ryan fastball. And why not? The Republican incumbent is retiring, and George W. has inherited his father's genes for ambition and seizing opportunities. He stumped Texas extensively for his father last year, delivering standard conservative scripts with energy if not eloquence. His name would make fund raising easy. No single rival for the G.O.P. nomination dominates the field...
...Solidarity was outlawed in 1982, the Polish government became desperate for Vatican ties in order to win support among its devoutly Catholic populace and enhance international esteem. John Paul, however, held back because the bishops in Poland feared that their tenuous status would be undermined if the government could deal directly with Rome...
...really think its all that hot," said Obediah R. Edwards '90, a native of Jackson, Miss. "Everybody keeps making a big deal about the heat...