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...offers and speaking requests are pouring in for MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. One of the more unlikely gigs was suggested by a Nevada impresario who wants to pay Gorbachev $1 million a year to play casino host and superflack. But House Speaker Tom Foley plans to make Gorby an offer -- and honor -- he probably can't refuse: an invitation to address a joint session of Congress. Foley's office expects to send out the all-expenses-paid bid in the next week...
...incessant questioning of the status quo. Long nights were spent brainstorming about everything from cost-cutting to energy conservation -- and virtually no idea was considered too absurd to be dismissed out of hand. Recalls state controller Gray Davis, who was Brown's chief of staff: "Upon learning that Nevada had reneged on a tentative agreement to provide greater environmental control over Lake Tahoe, Jerry spent several minutes debating the merits of invading Nevada." Liberal on social issues but tightfisted on taxes and spending, Brown introduced a new emphasis on limited resources and environmental conservation. He also changed the face...
...rivals of Tark the Shark's dominant, scandal-plagued basketball teams at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, UNLV stands for UNLoVed. So not many cried when his 1991 squad, 30-0 in the regular season, lost an NCAA semifinal game to the scholars of Duke. The coach's defenders aver that his rehab program for inner-city tall guys is affirmative action at its most productive. Others, spotting the athletes' BMWs in the gym parking lot, see another moral: it's not whether you win or lose, but how much you make on the side...
...rivals of Tark the Shark's dominant, scandal-plagued basketball teams at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, UNLV stands for UNLoVed. So not many cried when his 1991 squad, 30-0 in the regular season, lost an NCAA semifinal game to the scholars of Duke. The coach's defenders aver that his rehab program for inner-city tall guys is affirmative action at its most productive. Others, spotting the athletes' BMWs in the gym parking lot, see another moral: it's not whether you win or lose, but how much you make on the side...
...airmen, nine crewmen aboard five minisubs and approximately 65 on one sunken submarine. The U.S. lost 18 surface warships, sunk or seriously damaged; the Japanese none. The U.S. lost 188 planes destroyed and 159 damaged; the Japanese lost 29. Yet three of the five wrecked U.S. battleships (the California, Nevada and West Virginia) were eventually restored to service, and all the lost warplanes were eventually replaced -- more than replaced -- by the bombers that struck Tokyo and Hiroshima...