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...Nazi-like police force" because it wanted to investigate one of its chapters' support for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Indeed, most black leaders -- complacent slaves on the "liberal plantation" -- are stripping their people of pride and initiative by insisting on welfare programs and affirmative action. Environmentalists -- "extremist wacko-nut cases" -- are "a bunch of socialists who want bigger government and poorer people." Some animal-rights activists "want the extermination of the human race...
That's the sort of question a certified tennis nut asks himself halfway through Hard Courts, John Feinstein's long and relentless examination of the men's and women's pro-tennis tours. If the game's mood is as brackish and the players are as egomaniacal as this guy says, what am I doing here? It's a grouchy, spoilsport question, whose answer probably is that tennis watching is for those of us who always wanted to throw our oatmeal on the floor when we were little but were afraid the referee would default...
Confident to the point of arrogance when it comes to his work -- he insisted that HarperCollins publish Los Gusanos without making any editorial changes -- Sayles is decidedly restrained in his personal life. "If you keep your nut low, you don't end up in a situation where you have to take any job," he explains. Thus Sayles and Renzi split their time between a modest brick row house in Hoboken, N.J., and a farm in upstate New York, both of which they share with friends. Neither has a taste for fancy clothes, expensive cars or other such trappings of success...
...Honey Nut Cheerios provides less honey than sugar and more salt than nuts...
Well after nightfall, Rodriguez escorted us to the gate and waved goodbye. The same driver returned us to our hotel, talking this time with cheerful animation about his boss: "Gilberto's really a good guy, not a nut case like Escobar. And he treats the people who work for him fairly. He's interested in our welfare. There's only one thing he won't tolerate in his organization...