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...over with a fine-tooth comb. By all accounts, Gorbachev shouldn't have been Gorbachev. Then the pundits study the politics of the Soviet Union, evoke the shadow of Ronald Reagan and Star Wars, drag out tables and graphs to show that the Soviet economy was doomed to self-destruct, that it already had, that the country couldn't have gone on that way any longer. But what was Reagan to us, when we had managed to overcome Hitler, all while living in the inhuman conditions of Stalinism? No single approach--and there have been many--can explain Gorbachev. Perhaps...
...ancestors survive and reproduce, such as eating and fornicating. Though few men share an alpha male's opportunities for sexual addiction, any smoker who has kicked the habit rather than die young, only to then fall off the wagon, knows the mighty logic that can make a presidency self-destruct...
...comic: delightfully simple yet utterly absurd. In the hyper-violent, super-capitalistic universe of the future, a corporation called ScudCo manufactures "disposable assassins": three coins deposited in a vending machine will get you a robot designed to be the perfect killer, which will demolish your enemy and then self-destruct as soon as it's accomplished its mission (planned obsolescence, after all, is what makes consumer culture go). Our hero is a typical Scud robot assassin, bought by a middle manager who needs to get rid of a hideous mutant monster named Jeff--which, in the finest sci-fi/gross-out...
...saying about him just doesn't click." Equally disbelieving are New York fans who grew up listening to "Yesss!" and "Kick save--and a beauty." Says Frank Commrade, a truck driver for a carting company and die-hard Rangers and Knicks fan from Larchmont, N.Y.: "First the Knicks self-destruct, and now this. Say it ain't so, Marv...
...acerbic CIA chief has already served as Deputy Defense Secretary; would be a good fallback if stronger candidates self-destruct (remember Bobby Ray Inman...