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...ugly world, you can make incredible things happen with great effort. "Rocky represents the optimistic side of life, and Rambo represents purgatory," he says. The world, Rambo realizes, is perpetually chaotic and dangerous. "If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours???see what happens," Stallone says. "I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned." So, after reading about the unrest in Burma in Soldier of Fortune magazine (You thought he subscribed to Better...
...court hours???generally 10 to 4?have not changed since the 18th century when lawyers and judges were farmers and had to tend to their cows, says Boston Lawyer and Novelist (Friends of Eddie Coyle) George V. Higgins. "We do business in total and willful disregard for the telephone, the automobile and the computer. On opening day of a district court session, you can find 300 lawyers waiting around to get their cases scheduled, with their meters running." The trial date the judge wants often will not suit one or the other lawyer; when they finally agree, a witness will...
...rose at 5 a.m. in order to squeeze in five hours???eight to ten miles?in the water each day, supplemented by thrice-weekly workouts in the weight room. She even turned a bad break into a boon. Last fall she fractured her right leg playing on a swing. Outfitted with a fiber-glass cast, she went back into the water. Unable to use her legs, she swam for six weeks using just her arms and shoulders; the strength gained from hauling a useless leg through lap after lap resulted in dramatically faster times in the butterfly and breast stroke...
...Dareg, leveled its guns on a radar installation and demolished it. In the village of Ras Zafarana, the tanks destroyed another radar, then radioed Tel Aviv for permission to attack a detachment of Egyptian armor parked farther south. Because the convoy had already been in Egypt for ten hours???suffering one man wounded during the whole time ?headquarters ordered them home. Landing craft picked up the soldiers and ferried them back unopposed...
...Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day?24 hours???to realize that he had much...