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...must admit, my stats-seeking fingers have enjoying riding the crest of the Sox' impressive string of victories. Despite all those haunting disappointments of seasons past, I can't help but get excited again, just like I did in '86, and in '78 before that...
PRESTON STURGES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER (PBS, July 2, 9 p.m. on most stations). Hollywood's brilliant burnout, who created a string of comedy classics in the 1940s, then faded into oblivion, is profiled in the first American Masters segment of the summer. If only for the wonderful clips, a don't-miss...
...Rodriguez episode is the latest in a string of abuses that have aroused concern over Mexico's human-rights record. Salinas, on tour in Tokyo, immediately telephoned Castaneda to offer sympathies and sent a letter to the liberal daily La Jornada promising to pursue the culprits. But at the same time, an editorial in the government newspaper El Nacional suggested that Castaneda, an ally of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who ran a close second to Salinas in the fraud-tainted 1988 presidential race, had caused the threat against himself by consorting with the opposition...
President Samuel Doe claims that he has put down more than 30 coup attempts since he seized power, as Master Sergeant Doe, in an army uprising ten years ago. But the dictator's string of victories seems to have run out. A force of some 5,000 rebels last week captured the Roberts Field International Airport; occupied the Firestone rubber plantation, the country's largest private employer; and drew up on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital. Refusing to resign or flee, Doe barricaded himself in the executive mansion with several hundred members of his Israeli-trained elite guard...
...just order up a good idea or spend money to find one," points out Hallmark's Jon Henderson, director of the company's Creative Resources Center. "You have to build a climate and give people the freedom to create things." Better make that freedom and -- remember -- two candles, a string and paper clips...