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Pearl Harbor is no excuse for Hiroshima. The Japanese attacked a military base; they did not incinerate downtown Honolulu. The atom bomb could have been exploded over Tokyo Bay, within sight of the Emperor. Even the flattening of Mount Fuji would have been preferable to carbonizing humans. Jake Cipris Millburn...
...though many sex-prone businesses remained in his area, residents could "live with what we've got." The remaining joints, said Phelps, "don't have the hideous signs up, and they don't advertise, and they are down near the freeway, away from the residential area." Translation: out of sight, out of mind. --By Frank Trippett. Reported by David S. Jackson/Houston
Porter says his mouth literally used to water at the sight of beer signs. He could smell the malt on billboards. So, next to bartending or wine testing, he could hardly have found a less temperate location than Busch Stadium for tempering his character. Throughout every game in St. Louis, the organist plays relentless beer jingles to which the spectators have been conditioned to clap in cadence. If Missouri is not the perfect place for tapering off at the World Series, it is certainly an ideal spot for the family of baseball to drink to its rehabilitation. --By Tom Callahan
...private bodies, from the National Urban Coalition to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Despite his years in high places, Linowitz remains a remarkably modest man. This memoir contains few claims of credit for policy coups and no attempts at self-justification or revenge. The only enemy in sight is a little-known Pentagon official who opposed the canal treaties, and who is nonetheless described as "charming, capable, and full of goodwill...
...Gorbachev's most important foreign policy advisers is Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, 67. So self-effacing that visitors sometimes mistake him for a secretary, he advised Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko on foreign affairs, probably wielding more influence in this role than anyone other than Gromyko. Largely out of sight in Gorbachev's early tenure, Alexandrov has since emerged at his leader's side in important diplomatic meetings. Alexandrov is a talented linguist, fluent in six languages, including English. A stickler for detail and a master of phrasing, he has been a top speechwriter for the recent Soviet leaders...