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...weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could get to her feet, the spike heel of another woman shopper pierced her skull, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Fighting the Battle of the Bottle | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...walked in quietly and a shoe caught her motherly attention. It was sitting on my bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my mom first took a close look at my bed and, noticing that the mess on the matteress held only one inebriated soul, she slowly scowled around the room for that evil being that had corrupted her invaluable son. Not finding anything in the room, she gathered enough courage to open...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...come to grips with a double standard in its own nonproliferation policy, specifically as it is directed at Israel. While Israel's special relationship with the U.S. makes it an exceptional case, Washington's attitude toward Jerusalem, as Van Doren puts it, "could prove to be the Achilles' heel of our nonproliferation policy." Other would- be nuclear powers cannot fail to note the high levels of U.S. economic and military assistance bestowed on Israel despite its bomb-in-the-basement status and draw their own conclusions about the universal sincerity of U.S. antiproliferation efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Has the Bomb | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...netmen completed an impressive weekend double yesterday by blanking Penn State, 9-0, at Soldiers Field. The victory came on the heel of Saturday's 7-2 trouncing of the top-20-calibre University of North Carolina...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Netmen Enjoy Twin Killing Weekend: Route Penn State and North Carolina | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Wherever I go, it follows me, like a piece of bubble gum stuck to my heel, bringing humiliation and discomfort with...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

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