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...some Americans trying to ruin their nation by harassing President Clinton? People are trying to dig up anything they can to destroy him. But he is only human, capable of committing mistakes. Don't condemn him. Instead, try to see the good he has done. Americans are lucky to have him. STELLA VILAR DE ASIS Muscat, Oman...
...course, I had to attend incognito. Had the rest of the group realized that I wasn't one of them, group dynamics would have changed faster than the Harvard Police blotter. This meant that I couldn't go on a weekday--friends might wave and ruin my anonymity. This left Saturday as the only option. So early one Saturday morning I put on my jeans and an old sweatshirt, and did my best to look "high school...
This is the second year of living dangerously for Indonesian President Suharto. During the first, in 1965, he coolly rode out a coup, followed by massacres that killed 500,000 people, and emerged as the country's leader. In this one, economic ruin threatens to topple him. Yet as the rupiah plunges into worthlessness, the nation's debts go unpaid, the International Monetary Fund suspends emergency aid, and students riot in universities, he blithely has himself reappointed to his seventh five-year term as President...
...human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived. How had it happened? If it was necessary to exterminate Hitler and his works, it was equally necessary to try to understand...
...Lebowski its title. His opposite number is better known as "Dude." Played by Jeff Bridges, he's a burned-out beach bum whose mental clock stopped sometime in the '70s. But when some thugs, mistaking him for his namesake, invade his pad, beat him up and, worse, ruin the rug that ties the whole living room together, he seeks redress. Or at least some replacement carpetry...