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...Fifties was at least as rotten as any other decade, what with McCarthyism, segregation, the Cold War, the universal conservatism and intolerance. But modern Fifties nostalgia, generated by people who were children back then, is a peculiar kind of tunnel vision that never notices such nastiness. America was complacent and happy, a superpower without a rival in any sphere, and the meaning of life could be easily fit into a popular song with room for doo-wops and a chorus. What a time it was. No wonder we can't seem to get enough...
When the food got bad, students got mad. Four undergraduates staged the Rotten Cabage Rebellion of 1807 by presenting then President James T. Kirkland with a bowl of maggoty soup. They were promptly expelled...
...REAGAN'S tried and true damage control method suddenly break down so dramatically? For several reasons. Certainly, the magnitude and visibility of the crisis was a factor. The arms deal involves allegations of criminal conduct, incompetence and rotten policy at the highest levels of the government...
Because boxing is so hard, nobody thinks of it ever being done by choice or for pleasure, just for the money or the hope of some, by miserable circumstances and for rotten money. Both of boxing's big camps -- those who like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend...
...birth rates fell 40% in schools with clinics, though Health Supervisor Wanda Miller was hesitant to claim full credit for the clinics. Of the adolescent mothers who used the services, 80% stayed in school, and repeat pregnancies were almost nonexistent. Follow-ups are important, says Miller, because teens are "rotten contraceptors...