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These ribbons mark a rider's ability in any of several areas. The lowest level of competition includes only walking and trotting (also known as `bumping and jiggling' to novices). Other classes judge the form of the rider down to the position of their toes and their sitting posture. For the more adventurous, there is show jumping, an event in which the riders literally hurl themselves and their horses over a given set of jumps...
...something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than a restatement of long-held Israeli positions. But then, most positions look better with...
...counting. President Clinton is sending a bill to the Hill that would cover $1 billion of that -- but what Annan will want to know is whether any strings will be attached. Last year, Jesse Helms' bid to get $800 million out of his compadres was scuppered by an antiabortion rider in the House. The last thing the secretary general wants is a repeat of that farce. "Other countries in essence provide interest-free loans to cover largely American-created shortfalls," Annan wrote recently in the New York Times. Perhaps he'd have better luck passing the hat back...
...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, the Road. In his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that...
...Earnings in 1997 by top pro rodeo bull rider Ty Hickerson...