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Bread pudding. That's about as exotic as Appleton, Wis. This lack of sophistication may be why some historians insist that the great Houdini was born in Budapest. Still Houdini always said he was born in Appleton, observes Outagamie Museum Curator Mary Mergy, and that's what she likes to believe. "It adds," she says, "a little zest to life...
They look like Conan's long-lost cousins and even call themselves "the Barbarian Brothers," but David and Peter Paul insist any similarities with other he-men are just slickery skin-deep. "The difference between us and the Stallone-Schwarzenegger muscle-and-machine-gun types is our vulnerability," says Peter. "We are real positive about ourselves. We believe in order to do the impossible, you must see the invisible." Right. But even so, the identical hunks should be quite visible in coming months. Having already done bit flexing in D.C. Cab and The Flamingo Kid, the Pauls are back from...
...view of most Democrats, the President blatantly flouted these provisions. While the law does not define "timely fashion," the Democrats insist, that phrase cannot be stretched to cover a period as long as the 18 months of secret negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana...
...Corporation's refusal to meet with students vindicates the rhetoric of protesters concerned with the closed-door administrative structure of the University. How patronizing of our administrators to insist that they be above a one-time dialogue with their student constituency. At a minimum, such a meeting would be a gesture of good faith--a gesture that would show that Bok's appearance last spring at a question-answer session on divestment was a step toward dialogue, not an isolated attempt to appease student concerns...
American officials in the know insist that much of this story is sheer invention intended to make the U.S. look ludicrous. What really happened, they say, was this: McFarlane, North and two bodyguards did visit Tehran, but their passports were neither U.S. nor Irish. Also, they carried no Bible, cake or guns. They stayed in Tehran four or five days and managed to meet a number of Iranian officials, possibly including Rafsanjani, although accounts differ on that subject. Stories vary too on what, if anything, the mission accomplished. Some say that McFarlane's contacts with the Iranians were amicable, others...