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...midnight—”clock hands joined palms in respectful greeting,” as Rushdie put it—a heartfelt scream of excitement rose from thousands of throats in the Square. The first patrons came out of the Coop with their books held aloft, struggling through the clapping, cheering, slightly jealous crowd...
When I got back to my apartment and turned to the Internet, I verified the shocking information I had just heard; I saw that I hadn’t been lied to. Sure enough, the Weathermen—who rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign...
...Barry McCaffrey, who supports a partial withdrawal. "You'd burn or blow up a lot of your equipment or hand it over to the Iraqis. You'd be subject to attack on your way down to the coast because on the way, people would say, 'We can either throw rose petals or shoot at 'em,' and they'd shoot at us." A gradual exit rather than an immediate one isn't merely the wiser course; it's the only course...
...credit and a limited supply of homes have sent house prices skyward in recent years. The value of the average home reached $401,000 in May according to Halifax, a mortgage provider. That's almost three times the average in 1997. But with new buyers treading carefully, house prices rose by just 2% in the second quarter of this year, below the increase of the previous two quarters. Housing price inflation rates are expected to fall further in the coming months, economists...
...rose quickly through the ranks: Broadway debut at 20 in the World War II musical Over Here!, the lead role in the Broadway Grease at 21, TV fame as sexy Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter at 22. Then the Fever struck. Travolta radiated old-time star quality in his first major film role; he had the strut, the moves and the blinding white suit to be a disco dreamboat. Six months after Saturday Night Fever, which had a boffo domestic box office of $94 million, came Grease, which earned twice that...