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...million people buy an album, they can't all be outcasts. Some of them are going to be Rush Limbaugh fans who just like the beat. "I don't think all of these new fans know what they're listening to," says O'Shea. "I hope it's a short-term thing. I want my music back...
...make an entire difference, good or bad. I would tell them, in deciding why things happen, to make more of a study of the people involved.'' For all his wariness, Regan obviously loves the battle and gives back brickbats of his own. ''Having a reasonably short fuse, I am usually very unhappy at a less than perfect performance. We are always under the spotlight. There are always many decisions that a corporate executive makes in a hurry. They are crisis decisions, but he doesn't have a thousand reporters watching him and 5,000 who are going to write...
DIED. Jorge Luis Borges, 86, blind Argentine author of poetry and fiction, one of Latin America's greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and elegaic, his short stories at once fantastical and grittily realistic--most notably the mystery-like ''fictions,'' reminiscent of Kafka and Poe. The 1973 return of Dictator Juan Peron prompted him to resign as director of the National Library in his native Buenos Aires. Far from a handicap, being blind, he said, ''leaves the mind free to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...shuttle in California means spending $1 million for each return to the Florida launch site. In past years, the report says, the unrealistic flight schedules NASA had proposed had never been adequately funded by Washington. Under NASA's current $7.3 billion annual budget, spare parts were running so short that the commission projected that this year's flight schedule would have been sharply curtailed even without a Challenger disaster. Reagan gave James Fletcher, NASA's new administrator, 30 days to explain how he intends to implement the commission's recommendations. A more basic decision on whether to replace Challenger with...
...doctors cope with the Chernobyl disaster, which so far has cost 26 lives. ''It's a very dramatic thing to see a partially destroyed nuclear power plant,'' Gale told reporters after taking a helicopter tour of the scene. ''The damage itself doesn't appear to be that great. A short distance away is a city of high rises that today is completely deserted. If you're looking down on it from a helicopter, it's not at all apparent why this is so. But one knows there is a silent enemy lurking there.'' The enemy, of course, is radiation. There...