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Well, it's only a word. If the essence of liberalism is secure even from Reagan, does it make any difference that no one wants to be called a liberal anymore? Yes. Politics has always contained a large dollop of hypocrisy. But under Reagan, hypocrisy has swollen to the point that it covers many of the most important questions politics is supposed to treat. And that has real consequences. America's mountainous debts are a concrete expression of the nation's determination to enjoy liberalism without acknowledging it, and therefore without paying...
After a few days in the Los Padrinos Juvenile Detention Center, Frog is not so exultant. He sits glumly in his 9-ft. by 9-ft. cell, his locks shorn, one eye swollen, two front teeth missing. Twice he has been beaten bloody by older inmates. "They were big," says the 85-lb. Frog. He seems harder, more wary. Then a visitor mentions that cocaine comes from a plant grown in South America. Frog's eyes grow wide, and he suddenly looks like the confused little boy he is. "You think it is a plant?" he asks in astonishment. "That...
...verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on the radio from the works of Pushkin and other writers. "Never before nor ever in the future," said a survivor, "will people listen to poetry as did Leningrad in that winter -- hungry, swollen and hardly living." Today Russians will fill a stadium to hear a poetry reading...
...stressing their man's leadership ability. By the last weekend the scent of a blowout was in the air. In North Carolina, Missouri and Oklahoma, however, Dole still seemed to have a chance. Bush strategists added a modest $50,000 for more ads in those states to their already swollen TV budget of $1.8 million. They canceled live appearances in Alabama and Louisiana in favor of four more stops in Missouri, where the Senator from next-door Kansas is popular...
...that could prove more potent and longer lasting than Mevacor; an anti-ulcer medication that has shown a high degree of effectiveness; MK- 538, a drug that holds promise of aiding diabetes sufferers. Merck will soon launch large-scale clinical trials for MK-906, which in preliminary tests shrank swollen prostate glands without bad side effects, alleviating a problem that vexes millions of men over 40. Other teams are studying cures for cataracts, arthritis, cancer and AIDS. But so are Merck's rivals. London-based Burroughs Wellcome last week won, as expected, the U.S. patent on use of the drug...