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...eight rowers and one coxswain who descended into their boat last Saturday morning simply hoped that history would repeat itself. After all, they had worked hard--they had earned...
Joyriding has become an addiction among the hoods, as the hundreds of repeat offenders who have been arrested by cops or shot through the knees by I.R.A. gunmen attest. It's also a curious form of rebellion; to most hoods, both the "peelers" (the cops) and the "Provos" (Provisional I.R.A.) are hostile authority figures, equally loathed and feared...
...districts populated almost exclusively by military families, including the home district of reclusive Ne Win, who resigned his post as party chairman in 1988, but remains the most powerful man in the country. Other observers are worried that the slightest hint of civil disturbance may provoke the military to repeat the butchery of 1988, which resulted in the massacre of more than 3,000 demonstrators. The league can hope only that the apparent longing for democracy displayed by soldiers at the ballot box will translate into a public show of support for the civilian leaders who stand poised to return...
...mildly apprehensive about the reception that will greet The Burden of Proof. He expects some reviewers to cudgel him with the success of Presumed Innocent and anticipates complaints that the new novel does not repeat the formula of the old. "But that was intentional," he says. "I was wildly afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book. And I'm proud of The Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...
Next month she will repeat that performance at New York City's Lincoln Center, a redoubt of sober establishment culture. "My work is not about entertainment," she says. "People usually leave my shows crying." After leaving one of them, her grandmother sent her a note. It was a mixed review that could sum up the dilemma that any unbridled artist poses for the NEA. "She said that I was talented," Finley recalls, "but also a toiletmouth...