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...electric at this posh London casino. A beautiful woman is losing big at chemin de fer. How can the stranger across the table keep drawing better cards out of the shoe? Desperately, she borrows more to cover her bets, and the stranger says, "I admire your courage, Miss...
...economic measures appear to have more enthusiastic backing among white-collar workers. "We've just become self-sufficient and have been promised pay increases," says a tall, well-dressed woman who works for a shoe-repair shop. "We'll be expected to do more for our money, of course, but we're all for that. I'm saving for the first time in my life." A middle-aged administrator in a Moscow carpet factory agrees that there has been visible change under Gorbachev. "People think what they're doing is more worthwhile," he says. "Russians were never given the chance...
...time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next month, is a dark comedy about a troubled young actress named Suzanne Vale. Overwhelmed by money, men and success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, has recently disclosed her own struggle with prescription barbiturates. Suzanne, admits the author, is a "character that's fairly close to me -- an actress living in California with strong tendencies to be obsessive...
During 1984, after Congress cut off funds for the contras, North became obsessed with the men he referred to as freedom fighters. He kept a shoe box filled with pictures of contra leaders and talked about how he did not want to lose Nicaragua the way he saw the U.S. lose Viet Nam. North had been in the NSC longer than many of his superiors, and he began to believe in his own indispensability. "Being in the White House is heady," says a colleague. "You start carrying the cross by yourself, and if you don't do it, democracy falls...
...fairness doctrine in 1969, citing the scarcity of broadcast outlets and the need to enhance the expression of diverse opinions, but opponents argue that the situation has changed since then. With some 12,000 radio stations, 1,110 TV stations and a plethora of new cable outlets, the scarcity shoe is on the other foot. A typical large city now has dozens of radio and TV outlets but usually just one or two daily newspapers...