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...Western media hit Russia by storm after Gorbachev opened the borders with his radical policy of “Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia’s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...
After a drawn out soap opera in which his students begged him to stay and Shinagel apologized publicly and profusely, Briss just yesterday announced that he would be moving to another university where he would be able to act as inappropriately as he pleased all the time, or, as he put it, where he would be “appreciated and respected.” Dean Shinagel, he remarked in an interview broadcast nationally, is the “Saddam Hussein of continuing education.” Asked to explain, Briss continued, “I realize that the analogy...
...while waiting in line to buy soap at a grocery store that Newdow, a lifelong atheist born in the Bronx, began his linguistic crusade. Noticing that all his coins and notes had "in God we Trust" written on them, he decided to use his University of Michigan legal training to sue the government for removal of the phrase. After a bit of research, Newdow decided it would be easier to protest the pledge of allegiance by claiming he didn?t want his daughter to say "under God," even though she wasn?t in school at the time. He lost while...
...fixing scandal, in a plane crash; in Western Cape province. Cronje admitted accepting more than $100,000 from gamblers but denied ever throwing a match. DIED. MARIO LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986. CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published in 1841; in London. Punch was shut down once before, in 1992, due to declining sales...
...don’t sell anything here you could buy at CVS,” she says. “We don’t sell Ivory soap. We could be giving it away, nobody would take it here...