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Both these types, the one overactive and the other overpassive, are fashioning some odd new malformations of American character. The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms. In Freudian terms, the busybodies might be the superego of the American personality, the overbearing wardens. The crybabies are the messy id, all blubbering need and a virtually infantile irresponsibility. Hard pressed in between is the ego that is supposed to be healthy, tolerant and intelligent. It all adds up to what the Economist...
CHARLIE FINLEY -- M.C. HAMMER PROJECT (Imagine) The true-life story of the colorful owner of the Oakland A's, who hired the future rapmaster as the team's "executive assistant...
...caused by the state's fiscal crisis turned out to be mercifully brief. Three Connecticut companies chipped in $43,000 to keep Hammonasset and two other state beaches open through the weekend. But how soon state employees will return to work depends on how quickly Governor Lowell Weicker can hammer out his differences with the legislature over his plan to create a state income...
...that it wouldn't object to getting rid of the levy. But Washington insiders say the odds of killing the tax are still very low, since it was part of a delicately balanced package. If the tax is eliminated, it could unravel a budget compromise that took months to hammer out. Says a staff member on the House Ways and Means Committee: "Once you allow the process to start, you just don't know where it is going to stop...
Hank Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer (HarperCollins; $21.95), written with Lonnie Wheeler, is as much a provocative primer on baseball's race relations in the 1950s and '60s as it is a superstar's account of his triumphant march to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Aaron, who spent much of his career overshadowed by mediagenic players -- both white and black -- like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because...