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...proliferation of lawsuits is taking place at hundreds of sites around the country. In Glenwood Landing, New York, the EPA found 235 parties responsible, including not just major corporations but also a film-developing shop and a pizza parlor. One of those parties was Pat Genzale of Franklin Square, New York, a bona fide victim of Superfund's liti-gious excess. Genzale, who was going broke trying to comply with EPA orders to remove waste legally dumped 37 years ago on his family company's land, contracted to have some of the waste hauled to Ohio. The contractor dumped...
Carey cites soul singer Aretha Franklin as one of her influences. But on her new album, Carey tones down her vocal fireworks, seemingly in an effort to be more "mainstream." On the basis of just this album, select the pair of words that best indicates a relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair ARETHA FRANKLIN: MARIAH CAREY...
...doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo, a potential wife plots to murder both, and Franklin D. Roosevelt gets, as he drolly hums it, "all dolled up" for a soigne soiree on the Staten Island ferry...
...days, Franklin Roosevelt could say (or so it is said) of Anastasio Somoza, "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." No longer. With the end of the great ideological wars, we could stop propping up our sons of bitches: our Somozas, our Trujillos, our Nguyen Cao Kys. We could subordinate foreign policy to morality, something Americans have hungered to do since Woodrow Wilson suggested the idea to an incredulous world almost a century...
...dearth of grand leaders on the world stage? Largely it is because of the absence of grand challenges, or at least of the clear good-vs.-evil challenges that can rally a people and call forth bold leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...