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...four months since they came to power, Havel and his democratically inclined colleagues have practically erased communism from political life. They are finding it far harder, however, to do away with another legacy: Czechoslovakia's extensive role as arms supplier to Communist regimes, liberation movements and outright terrorists. Says an Interior Ministry official: "The Communists may be gone, but they have locked us into a web of arms deals and even terrorism that may be impossible to escape...
Williams' cowpoke image and a bundle of cash have propelled him to the fore in a mud-spattered primary season. Riding a nearly 2-to-1 lead over his nearest rival, Texas Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance, into this week's G.O.P. election, he seemed a good bet to win outright, avoiding a runoff. One recent poll shows him going on to beat handily any candidate the Democrats nominate...
...asks, "when they have sent me other blockbuster items?" Smart press agents know how to manipulate a client's image by choosing what charities and causes to support. However inconvenient the information that is circulating about oneself or one's client, it is considered a big mistake to lie outright. Some Hollywood observers were critical of Tom Cruise for going out of his way, in the weeks preceding the breakup of his marriage, to proclaim the relationship solid...
This is ideology masquerading as education and aspiring to psychotherapy. It demands outright lying. Not all groups in America have contributed "to the development of all aspects of our society." There is little to be said, for example, about the Asian-American contribution to basketball, about the Jewish-American contribution to the Pequot War or about the contribution of women to the Bill of Rights. Some connection could, of course, be found -- manufactured -- if one pushed it. But pushing it would be entirely in the service of ideology, not truth. American history has not been smoothly and proportionately multicultural from...
...team, consisting of captain Daniel H. Edelman '91, Issa N. Youssef '90, Andrew H. Serotta '91 and Vivek V. Rao '92, won the tournament outright in 1988, the first time in Harvard history, and was seeded first coming into the 1989 competition...