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...this thing," Law Examiner John E. Holt-Harris Jr. told the New York Times. The board is offering various ways to take part or all of a new test. The 542 aspirants are stunned. Three phoned a Long Island lawyer to inquire about a possible class action. Said Candidate Ronald Korybski: "Who wants to study all that again?" The answer is nobody. Still unanswered: Were the tests lost, or were they stolen to force a rerun by some unprepared victim of that other nightmare...
Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and clutching a fistful of French fries, he gets ready to whisk down the slide in the restaurant's kiddy playground, while his mother Cynthia stands by with envy. "One day I hope that Kevin will appreciate my cooking," she says. "But for now, I can't even compete with a Big Mac and fries...
Bumper stickers and stadium banners proclaim BRUCE--THE RAMBO OF ROCK! "In the midst of a lot of music about love, he's a spokesman for patriotism," says Larry Berger, program director of New York City's powerful WPLJ-FM. "He's the Ronald Reagan of rock 'n' roll." In fact, the only thing Springsteen has in common with Stallone's marauding murder machine is a bandanna around the forehead; and the one time the President tried to cut himself in on Boss territory ("America's future rests ... in the message of hope in songs of ... New Jersey...
...Editors: As a Briton living in the States, I was impressed by your informative yet lighthearted coverage of the royals' visit [PEOPLE, Nov. 11]. You captured the mood inspired by Charles and Di at home, which is seldom understood outside the British Isles. Ronald and Nancy Reagan give the presidency a similar kind of glamour. Politics exists, whoever is at the top. The glitter makes the politics more bearable, even enjoyable. Susan Elliott-Booth Lacey, Wash...
...Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev talked in Geneva through more complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural...