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...then the Mets won. They scored three runs after having two outs and nobody on. The greatest comeback in world series history. But let's face it, folks--cream rises to the surface eventually, and the Mets, with their penchant for drama, had simply waited until the last out of game six to show that they are the best team baseball has seen for along time. And the Sox proved once and for all that they are a run-of-the-mill squad that made it through the regular season and the league championship series on luck and luck alone...
...then, has Gorbachev seemed so eager to make a deal, proposing compromises on intermediate missiles and releasing Daniloff in order to get a face-to-face meeting with Reagan in Iceland? One reason may be that the Soviets, with their penchant for worst-case analysis, consider it possible that the next American President may be even less easy to do business with than Reagan. They can foresee an American President who is more vigorously anti-Soviet and even more committed to strategic defense than is Reagan. As they survey the U.S. political landscape, Soviet-American-affairs specialists are noticeably curious...
...Secretary Bennett's speech raises important questions about the role of universities and the education they offer. Instead of pursuing the questions in an informed and sober manner, he has followed his penchant for delivering highly publicized polemics against educational practices which he has not studied in detail and policies with which he happens todisagree," Bok said in a statement about thespeech which will be delivered in Sanders Theatertoday...
...three creators have their own career dreams riding on the film's success. Two years ago Jackson was No. 1 on the hot parade, but his penchant for reclusiveness and prolonged sessions in the recording studio (his new album, delayed several times, is due to be released in January) have dimmed his star power. Coppola has not made a hit film since Apocalypse Now in 1979. Lucas has sponsored a couple of expensive duds this summer (Labyrinth and Howard the Duck) and has seen his hugely profitable Star Wars merchandise inch toward the remainder shelves...
...like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against crack has become the latest celebrated cause...