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...head of a group that paid the Russian army $1.2 million last June for a stake in the team. (Among the other investors: N.H.L. star Mario Lemieux and actor Michael J. Fox.) The Penguins, from their new $200 jerseys -- a hip, hockey-playing bird has replaced the hammer-and-sickle motif -- to the circus performers and striptease acts between periods, are Russia's first glimpse at the American custom of big-time sports mixed with even bigger-time marketing...
...Academy Award as best film, but another nominated picture seemed to move America more, To Kill a Mockingbird, about race and justice and hope in the South. The music of young Americans was changing from perky love songs to stuff of a different romance. If I Had a Hammer and Blowin' in the Wind were melodic calls for justice and freedom all over this world. America was rich, and its wealth was shared by many millions. A lot of this was new, and people did not quite know what to do with it or how to act. But the Kennedys...
...farmer and his family put the house on logs and rolled the house a half-mile across town and onto a foundation they had dug themselves. I discovered this history when my father first took a whack at the white plasterboard of the spare room. My father slammed the hammer's teeth into the wall, peeling away the flimsy board to reveal dark, cobwebbed wood...
During the 1992 campaign, Ross Perot's solution to many national problems was to gather a group of "world-class" experts and hammer out a solution. Well, on NAFTA, the experts have made their decision, and--surprise, surprise--Perot is on the other side...
While the renovation of the first-year dorms has received the most attention, several other buildings are also going under hammer and nail...