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"Ten thousand people, maybe more," goes the line in The Sounds of Silence. Make that many, many more. An estimated 750,000, in fact, equivalent to the entire population of Baltimore, all crammed into a single patch of New York City's Central Park. PAUL SIMON was back, a decade...
President F.W. de Klerk is often hailed for his boldness in ending apartheid, but South Africans also regard him as a cautious man. Last week he displayed both traits as he appeared to end stonewalling on "Inkathagate," the scandal over disclosures that Pretoria interfered in black politics by secretly funding...
Agency executives can be forgiven if they jump every time the phone rings these days. At any moment, an enviable client may invite a pitch or a major chunk of their business may walk out. When New York's N W Ayer celebrated its victory last week in capturing the...
A court that approves challenges to settled law tends to invite more of them. To anyone unhappy with the legacies of the old Supreme Court, the new Supreme Court appears to be sending this message: come up and see me sometime. With several of the Justices scornful of court-imposed...
Those who believe dictionaries should not merely reflect the times but also protect English from the mindless assaults of the trendy will find that the Random House Webster's lends authority to scores of questionable usages, many of them tinged with "politically correct" views. Purists will fume, but what is...