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TRADITIONALLY, IT IS the responsibility of the living to make sure that heroes who died too soon did not die in vain. The Reagan Administration seems to have a penchant for turning that commitment on its head...
...lose a few commuters every year in the name of commerce (even the space-bound sort), that's only if the corpses don't get onto network TV. Putting McAuliffe on board to prove that the shuttle is the People Express of space was recklessly tempting fate's penchant for dramatic irony...
...against a rock. Abbas has a considerable sense of selfimportance: during his days as a guerrilla commander in the P.L.O. state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut in a Mercedes with as many as eight bodyguards. Well before the Achille Lauro hijacking, he had a penchant for bizarre and ineffective operations. In 1981 he tried to infiltrate raiders across the Lebanese border into Israel by hot-air balloon and hang glider; they were killed or captured...
...enthusiasm: karate. He hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend who ODed near the Afghan border, and the presence of his Hollywood producer-director father. McInerney has an unfortunate penchant for Christian metaphors, and his story is heavy with meditations about redemption. A pity; the rest of the way he is as good as the pre-Garp John Irving. All McInerney needs, like his heroes, is to grow up a little...
Given the sect's penchant for put-ons, as well as its reportedly declining membership and lawsuits concerning the takeover of Antelope, outsiders did not know what to make of the bhagwan's statements. Neither, evidently, did the six different groups of lawmen that jointly began examining the guru's charges last week: the Oregon state police, the FBI, the Wasco County sheriff, the Dalles police, the state attorney general's office and the U.S. Attorney's office. Wasco County District Attorney Bernard L. Smith said at week's end that his office will coordinate an investigation of the situation...