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...worried. They were in physical danger once and could be again, she fears. She sees threats all around: the Russian press, she says, is mounting an anti-Gorbachev campaign, printing reports that he has bought houses in foreign countries or has smuggled vast sums of money abroad. In a rough-and-tumble society like Russia's, this spells uncertainty at least...
...that many members would be torn among three choices: following their party, their home districts or the way their state voted. As Berman sees it, Perot could benefit if Bill Clinton fares poorly in the popular vote. "A lot of members," Berman says, "might prefer this diamond in the rough to four more years of gridlock with Bush." To some legislators, every option could taste like political hemlock. Ducking the decision equals cowardice. Backing a candidate unpopular at home risks constituents' wrath. Crossing party lines imperils any politician's future in public office...
...crystalline, his lines distinctively long and sinuous, full of witty, sometimes startling interjections and exuberant flurries into his laserlike top register, but always settling back into a sleekly lyrical groove. He probes the recesses of ballads like Yesterdays and Imagination with a risky intimacy. On middle-tempo numbers like Rough Ridin' and his own composition Mysterioso, he twists and flashes through the beat with a finger-snapping insouciance...
Certainly, if anyone is an position to claim a championship his weekend, it is Harvard. The team boasts the premier offensive and defensive units in the country, and despite a momentary lapse down in Baltimore. Md. (an overtime loss to Loyola), it has run rough-shod over every opponent its faced...
...Jones said, smiling, the injuries mighthave come from rough sex, which some people enjoy...