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Ironically, suburbanites who bristle at the thought of federal or state dollars going to support inner cities can spend like liberals on a spree when their own communities stand to benefit. In recent years the voters of Georgia's Gwinnett County, a mostly white, Republican enclave outside Atlanta, have approved road and library bond issues, as well as a special recreation tax and a 1% local sales tax to finance roads, a new courthouse and a jail...
AFGHANISTAN'S MUJAHEDIN REBELS INFLICTED CONSIDERable damage on occupying Soviet troops and government forces thanks to mountains of sophisticated weaponry supplied from American and other Western sources. Now that a cease- fire is in place, terrorist groups and outlaw regimes are on a shopping spree in Afghanistan. Governments around the world are worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying...
...This spree moved her into second place on the Ivy League scoring list, behind (you guessed it) Harvard junior Liz Berkery...
...towers, each with four carved visages of a complacently smiling future Buddha, or bodhisattva. The faces are probably likenesses of the temple's builder, King Jayavarman VII. The King, whose vigorous rule turned out to be the death rattle of the Angkor civilization, went on perhaps the greatest building spree of all Khmer kings, but the sandstone available by his time was of a much lower quality than that used at Angkor Wat. When first discovered, the Bayon was already so decrepit that archaeologists believed it was one of the earliest temples instead of one of the last...
Korder first showed talent with 1987's Fun, a teenage boy's nihilist spree, and burst into prominence in 1988 with Boys' Life, a Mametian glimpse of postadolescent rituals of drinking, puking, courting and infidelity. In Search and Destroy, now on Broadway, he looks at men his own age who have achieved material success but feel an inner hollowness. They seek cures ranging from ritual maleness a la Iron John to shedding their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income...