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...both contests the lesson was the same: it's fun to be a bomb thrower until the bomb blows up in your face. Texas Republican Clayton Williams squandered his lead over state treasurer Ann Richards with an unending stream of bloopers. He called Richards a liar and refused to shake her hand. His doom was sealed in the closing days of the campaign when he not only revealed that he was ignorant of the only constitutional amendment on the ballot but also admitted that he had paid no income taxes in 1986, even though he is a multimillionaire. Williams' gaffes...
Many students looking for a hot shower to start off the day have instead found themselves gasping for breath under an icy stream of water...
Financial News Network was an idea tailor-made for the money-mad 1980s: a U.S. cable-TV channel providing a constant stream of business programming and Wall Street statistics. Such upscale, upbeat offerings as Money Talks and Power Profiles have attracted 35 million subscribers. But as the economy slides into the nervous '90s, capitalism's live wire is having capital problems of its own. FNN has acknowledged that with $158 million in debts and only $5 million in cash on hand, the network can no longer meet its operating expenses. Most of the debt is tied to the cost...
Rays of heat began to stream through my windows. And the room got warmer. And warmer. And hotter. And hotter. By about 10 a.m.--when the pounding heat woke me up--the temperature in my room was approximately 90 degrees. Celcius...
...rough limestone. Are these soaring images sacred or profane? A large bespectacled woman closes her eyes and sighs in wonder. She imagines a time, perhaps 20,000 years ago, when rituals were performed in this same hidden cave in the flickering light of animal-fat lamps. Slowly, tears stream down her cheeks. "It's like a church," she whispers. "You feel you can understand the people who painted this...