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...long ago, humor writer Dave Barry lamented that he and his wife had spent "two-thirds" of their disposable income taking their son to see Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. "If we weren't actually in Disney World, we were standing outside the fence," he said. "If the lines were too long, we just threw money over...
...policy gap between the three blocs squabbling for power -- Hata's coalition, the conservative "Liberal Democrats" and the Socialists -- was so great that they could not even agree on when to hold more talks. Hata, meanwhile, stays on as caretaker and looks to be the second consecutive lame-duck premier Japan will send to the G-7 economic summit, to be held July 8 in Naples. The P.M.'s fall is considered bad news for the Clinton Administration; Hata had begun thawing relations between the U.S. and Japan...
...enemies to the North. But Washington is in the dark about how % well the North might attack. Virtually all the military analysts studying the battlefront acknowledge that hard information about the quality of Pyongyang's forces is scanty. "Compared to North Korea, the former Soviet Union was a duck-soup intelligence target," notes a Pentagon's analyst. "Here, we just don't know much...
...customers are adults. Heather Bamberg, 24, forages until she finds a gift for her godchild: a cap with the Tasmanian Devil logo. More often, though, Bamberg shops for herself. "The themes here remind me of my childhood," she says, surrounded by icons of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Roadrunner. "It's like looking in a museum. I never come to the mall without coming in here...
...duck left-handers. I don't duck right-handers. I don't even duck gunshots...