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...sour taste of that second goal never left the players' mouths. Duke tacked on a third goal midway through the second half, but it was just icing on the cake...
...fellow crash survivor. Now "after much thought and consideration" --and seven months of togetherness--she is separating from that man, real estate developer RICK TAUBMAN, whose son she bore but eight weeks ago. Apart from Brinkley's tendency to overthink issues, it's unclear why her third marriage went sour, although there's ugly talk that money is an issue. Musings from the model's mind don't shed much light. "Life is short," she told PEOPLE at the time of her nuptials. "Ricky and I want to be together all the time...
Such an analysis inevitably elicits the shrill accusation of "sour grapes." Of course the winners in an election will pursue policies which advance their own interests and hurt those of the opposition. And the small-government, tax-cutting Republican neophytes would betray their supporters if they did any favors for the "welfare bureaucracy" so often excoriated in their campaign ads. Yet when conservatives seek to undercut the very means of political competition itself--to systematically cut off their ideological opponents from access to advocacy--there is good reason for alarm. Bewildered by attacks on all sides, American liberals need...
...disappeared. With most cafes closed, people could no longer engage in the city's favorite pastime, sipping Turkish coffee and arguing. Eating was a dull affair, enlivened only by combining U.N. food packages in inventive ways. (The recipe for one popular preparation, "brains": fry onions in oil, then combine sour yeast and bread crumbs.) Spring had arrived, but children had given up playing volleyball, football and their nameless street games. Many shops were closed, and those that remained open were poorly stocked...
...Teer, now 20, relishes the memories from those turbulent times. He recounts the "fun" of throwing rocks at the British patrols, the drama of street demonstrations and the exhilaration of getting chased by cops. "There was always something going on in those days," he recalls. And unless luck turned sour, kids like Teer survived with their body unscathed. Their futures, however, were more precarious...