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...OTHER DAY, spurred by a fear that I had heard something moving around inside, I cleaned out my desk. Among the many things I found were my application essays (which I read with a shame not unlike that of Harrison Williams watching himself on the Abscam tapes), a half-eaten crispito, and an official guide to life at Harvard...
...sooner had the helicopters whisked away Ferdinand Marcos, his family and entourage than the looters and the curious began to arrive. They found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France...
...speech, Reagan said: "Today in Nicaragua we see a chain of events similar to what happened here. We hear the same excuses made for the communists, while the people of Nicaragua see their freedom slowly but surely eaten away...
...religion). The featured offering is the daily Jim and Tammy show, a variety-and-talk program with Bakker and his wife as hosts on an opulent, hacienda-style set with orchestra, singers and live audience. Bakker's receipts exceed $100 million a year. Much of the money is eaten up by his Heritage USA theme park, opened in 1978 near Fort Mill, S.C., and already the third-largest such attraction in the country, with nearly 5 million visitors a year. Unlike Walt Disney World and Disneyland, which rank ahead of it, Heritage USA charges no admission. The grandiose...
...presidential proclamation last summer and instituted on Nov. 1. The American taste for Italian macaroni is on the rise; sales have grown from 10 million lbs. in 1975 to 110 million lbs. a year now. Even so, that accounts for only 4% of 2.3 billion lbs. of pasta eaten annually in this country. The tariff increase reflects U.S. resentment at the protective duty Europeans maintain on citrus imports from this country. This higher tariff means that consumers will pay 10% to 15% more than the current 70 cents to $1.10 per lb. of imported pasta. According to Max Busetti...