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...everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while...
...into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze, "a dedicated Communist...
...circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ. 57,000), owned by the publishing arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In Los Angeles, La Opinion (60,000) competes against Noticias' West Coast edition (30,000). The Midwest is served by Chicago's El Manana Daily (45,000). Miami's Diario Las Americas, founded in 1953, finds its biggest challenger in the Miami Herald, which publishes a daily Spanish-language supplement called El Herald. Begun in 1976, El Herald is inserted into editions delivered to Hispanic neighborhoods. Though Diario (circ...
...imagine it to be a Rockwellian scene of mostly pink-cheeked children spelling out the adventures of Dick and Jane. But come for a moment to the playground of the Franklin elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington last month was Balu Natarajan, 13, who was born in India, now lives in a suburb...
...Buffett tune for its campaign theme song. This son of a son of a sailor and captain of high times upon the high seas has an irresistible disregard for authority and thus great appeal for those who prefer to live and let live. The topical trends of songs like "Manana" and "Why Don't We Get Drunk" have endeared Buffett to a group of fans whose numbers are certainly smaller than Springsteen's following, but whose rowdiness level is equal or higher...