Word: reborning
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...difficult to explain. Somehow, for some strange reason, Harvard came out of the second half like a team reborn...
...investigator Richard Goodwin has been vastly exaggerated. But the real problem is the easy Hollywood cliches into which history has been transformed. The Van Doren clan is a caricature of effete Waspishness, Goodwin a garden-variety TV-movie crusader. Herb Stempel, who blew the whistle on the scandal, is reborn as perhaps the most offensively stereotyped Jew in modern American cinema. To gauge the injustice, one has to go back to the actual tapes of Van Doren and Stempel on Twenty-One. Van Doren's theatrical groping for answers today looks phony, while Stempel's stolid awkwardness is rather ingratiating...
...know about small American cars. Even as the U.S. auto industry pulled itself out of its '80s slough with its nifty minivans and reborn muscle cars, Detroit's compacts continued to deserve their reputation as cheap, homely, unreliable and, well, maybe a cut above Yugos and Trabants and the like, but not by much. Even their makers now admit that American compacts have been, for the most part, junk. Listen to Ford's Jerry Auth, a marketing executive: "Small cars built by Ford, GM and Chrysler were considered inferior -- and they were." Says Chrysler's Walter Battle, a planning manager...
...most exquisite language of the day, he turned their adversity into glorious emancipation. "Germany and Italy, liberated by our victory, now stand among our closest allies and the staunchest defenders of freedom. Russia, decimated during the war and frozen afterward in communism and cold war, has been reborn in democracy...
COVER: South Africa Reborn...