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...Evil has great momentum, but the forces of good are inert. The masses . . . have no fight in them, and will acquiesce in whatever happens." Until last week the Russian character was judged to be politically passive, even receptive to brutal rule. At first the coup seemed to confirm the norm. The news administered a dark shock, followed immediately by a depressed sense of resignation: of course, of course, the Russians must revert to their essential selves, to their own history. Gorbachev and glasnost were the aberration; now we are back to fatal normality. "Every country has the government it deserves...
Corked bats. Rampaging fans. Wife swapping. Not the sort of stuff that's found on baseball TRADING CARDS -- until now. The new Foul Ball series features some of baseball's most inglorious moments. Among them: slugger Norm Cash's confession that he used doctored bats, the nights on which beer-addled fans in Cleveland and Chicago forced forfeits, and the time when two Yankee pitchers swapped their wives, children and even family dogs...
...Thernstrom's case and others like it the norm? Or are they isolated instances that the media has chosen to focus on and blow out of proportion...
...Hyatt hotels have dished up fresh eggs only when a guest explicitly requests them sunny-side up. Diners are not told of this shell game, for as a Hyatt spokeswoman insists, "to the average person's taste, I don't think you'd notice." Liquid eggs have become the norm at fast- food chains (Burger King) and on airlines (United and American...
...gone, swept away by a wave of proudly downscale fare, including Roseanne, The Simpsons and Married . . . with Children. Campy hobnobber Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous has been replaced in the hearts of viewers by chatty Jeff Smith of The Frugal Gourmet and nonaerobic carpenter Norm Abram of The New Yankee Workshop. Love stories, melodramas and family films have taken over Hollywood. Home Alone, Ghost and Pretty Woman, for example, collectively reaped more than $500 million in total revenues last year. Get set for an onslaught of films about people waking up and smelling the coffee...