Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old party patriarch is one of the world's last communist stalwarts, an ideological dinosaur rapidly headed for extinction. But you'd never know it to talk to him. Let Mikhail Gorbachev resign as party boss, and let the roll of party defectors grow faster than a meat line in Moscow. Gus Hall still insists that communism is not dead, that socialism is as inevitable as ever, that capitalism will be destroyed. "The problem is not with socialism. The problem is with human error, mistakes of leadership," argues Hall, groping to explain the earthquake in the Soviet Union...
While the debate unfolds, both the traditional and progressive approaches are likely to roll along side by side -- and rightly so, since teaching about sexual behavior in a moral vacuum would not serve young people well, any more than ignoring the practical pressures to experiment with sex and drugs that they confront each day. Any AIDS education should be coupled with programs about drug and alcohol abuse, in order to address all the risk factors that intertwine. School is by no means the only, or even always the best, place for this to happen. In Columbia, S.C., a beauty-shop...
...Information Agency study shows a shrinking audience. Radio Marti employees blame their director, Rolando Bonachea, for the defections. Bonachea has tried to "professionalize" the station's programming by increasing its anticommunist rhetoric. Castro's stations, by contrast, have won listeners back by giving them what they want: rock 'n' roll...
...Warren Zevon and Karla Bonoff. Whether any 1990s group will crash the charts in such big-time fashion is not yet known. But they are already making a joyful noise, a reworking and reinvention of what the Irish songwriter Paul Brady, 44, calls "blue-eyed American rock 'n' roll...
James stayed in the house more. He studied harder, making the honor roll for the first time. Friends of his brothers' encouraged him to keep at it. "Even though they don't go to school, they'd be telling me to go to school," he says. "I guess with what happened to my brother, nobody really wanted...