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...retire from a conflict it cannot win. An estimated 30,000 Soviet troops have died in the eight-year conflict (compared with nearly 50,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam). The mujahedin denounced the accord last week, largely because they were not invited to participate, but they are nonetheless gleeful over the Soviet retreat. Said Nabi Mohammadi, the leader of Harakat, one of the main resistance groups: "Small Afghanistan has triumphed over the wild Soviet bear...
...addition to matter and energy. This information provides the foundation for morphic fields and allows them to persist undiminished through time and space. Though he offers a few tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like. With his formative causation, it seems, anything goes, and the details expand and contract into every corner of the scientific edifice...
Middle-aged married female readers will be unsympathetic and even gleeful about Sherman's downfall. He is driving his young mistress Maria Ruskin home from Kennedy International Airport and feeling on top of the world when he mistakenly turns off the highway and gets lost in the South Bronx. There is a confrontation with two black youths, a scuffle, a hasty escape with the girlfriend now behind the wheel of his black Mercedes sports car. There is also a suspicious thok! against...
...door of a Wells Fargo truck lugging some $400,000 along route I-95 burst open and, suddenly, according to a highway patrolman, it "rained $20 bills." A massive traffic jam ensued as astounded motorists abandoned their vehicles to merrily chase the cash. When lawmen arrived and ordered the gleeful pursuers to return the loot, some complied. But all together, the money chasers carried with them what a Wells Fargo spokesman later called a "significant" amount of money...
...Photographed on jumpy, grainy black-and-white tinted Super 8, edited to look at first like some family-heirloom home movie but in fact adeptly synced to the hard rhythms of the song, the Nike spot rousingly shows several pros (including John McEnroe and Michael Jordan) and lots of gleeful amateurs working themselves into sweaty transports of athletic fulfillment. "We tried to make a kind of radical sports documentary," says Paula Greif, who produced and directed the spot with her partner Peter Kagan. "It's about emotional moments." For nostalgists, Beatles fans or anyone else who takes rock as seriously...