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After the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was quite clear that a Soviet base in Cuba would spell disaster for American security. The United States's hard-line policy grew even harder, faithfully perpetuated by a succession of presidents, both Democrats and Republicans. Through Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, through the Vietnam War, Woodstock, disco, and Reaganomics, Castro still ruled in Havana, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States despite the crushing weight of the trade embargo...
Usually, however, students merely glance at its cover--to see how the funky graphics have changed from the year before--and then tuck it away for safekeeping. Breaking the book's seal, many fear, would be a mistake comparable to Pandora's famous gaffe, for it would spell the immediate end to the carefree days of summer vacation...
THREE-TO-SIX-YEAR-OLDS: For the youngest set of computer users, simplicity rules. Reader Rabbit I from the Learning Company uses digitized speech to help youngsters read and spell; kids click on three-letter words to hear Reader Rabbit pronounce them aloud. Millie's Math House from Edmark has an animated talking cow that invites children into her home to learn about numbers, shapes and sizes. And just this month, Software Toolworks released Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! for Kids, a simplified version of a program for older children that has sold more than 3 million copies since...
...Mask," the hilarious Jim Carrey's new film, while not reviewed here was definitely worth seeing. A creative premise, Carrey's character finds himself a addicted to the assertive personality he becomes while under the spell of a mysterious wooden mask he finds. Unfortunately, I don't think he was the "Mask" often enough. And his little dog makes me want a Jack Russell terrier...
...making its power felt in the G.O.P. Though Christian conservatives did much to set the belligerent tone of the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston -- which, to put it mildly, was no great advantage to George Bush -- the experts were wrong in predicting that the G.O.P. defeat that year would spell the end of their influence. Led by the Christian Coalition, the organization that rose from the debris of Pat Robertson's failed presidential bid in 1988, the religious right kept up its building process at the local level, jamming G.O.P. committee meetings and state caucuses. The grass-roots effort...