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...something." Or, in the McCains' case, many somethings: their menagerie includes turtles Cuff and Link, many fish, some parakeets, Oreo the cat and four dogs, among them terriers Lucy and Desi. Obama could take comfort in his 14-point lead among non--pet owners, except that they form a distinct minority of U.S. households...
...They never came, and not because I had prepared myself beforehand. I hadn’t. I wanted the experience of being in London to wash over me with all its natural undulations, like the push and pull of a gentle tide. Unlike visiting, living somewhere demands a distinct kind of acculturation. It is an open-minded kind of tourism, an accepting stance toward unfamiliar expressions and the way people interact in the street, an openness to new subway maps and the way strange currency feels in your hand. You let these things enter your mind and you let them...
...most important.'' The difficulty most people have with slash-and-burn comedy is separating the conceptual satire (''Look how uptight people are over these words!'') from the real-world impact (''How can he say that about black people?!''). Comedians themselves are much better at keeping the two distinct. After spewing out ethnic insults on the Tonight Show, Don Rickles (who is back on TV this fall in a Fox sitcom) usually let Johnny Carson know what a sweet guy he really was inside. Stern, after staying aloof from the press for years, has suddenly turned into a ubiquitous and cooperative...
...knows Catalans will know -- mattered greatly to him. Catalunya, that triangle in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula whose capital is Barcelona, has always prided itself on its differences from the rest of Spain. They begin with language, for Catalan is no mere dialect of Castilian Spanish but a distinct language, closer to Provencal and Italian. They pervade the region's history, politics, folklore and sense of itself, from the 11th century down to the present day. Catalans like to think of their culture as both older than most of Spain's (Barcelona was a great medieval city when Madrid...
...weapons are involved. Moreover, the Soviets have other ways to deliver a bomb--from offshore submarines or cruise missiles, for example, neither of which could be intercepted by proposed SDI technology. SDI planners see their defense as a multilayered ''architecture'' that could blunt a Soviet attack during the three distinct stages of delivery: the missile's boost, or launch, phase; midcourse, essentially the intercontinental space flight after the nuclear warheads and decoys have been released; and terminal, or re-entry, when the deadly warheads drop back into earth's atmosphere heading toward their targets. The most important of these...