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...None of them??are Brazilian, and only one is a girl, but this foursome uses bossa nova, reggae, lounge and any teasing rhythm to create a dance track you might actually dance...
...receive 85% of the net receipts; King and their parents, Katherine and Joseph Jackson, the remaining 15%. King, a congenially bombastic presence whose recent show-business experience has been limited to booking prizefights, estimates that "if the boys decide to exploit every avenue of merchandising and marketing available to them???T shirts, pay-per-view TV concerts, clothing lines, perfume lines, product identification?the tour could gross $100 million...
...Dien Bien Phu. The carcasses of Marine helicopters near Danang. Other place names, other landmarks testify to the tragic fortunes of outsiders who visited Viet Nam in the past and later wished they had never come. In meting out their "lesson," the Chinese?like the French and Americans before them???could find Viet Nam to be an unruly classroom...
Palestinian liberation factions have been so busy lately assassinating one another that it was almost a relief?for them???to be at war with Israel again. Last week, in the aftermath of an Israeli air raid on Palestinian camps on the outskirts of Beirut, an elderly Palestinian woman expressed some consolation as she mourned the four dead and 14 wounded. "At least," she said, "these were Israeli bombs, and we are not afraid to die. When we are killed by Palestinians, it is shameful...
...forced schools to upgrade their programs for girls, and fast. Says Margot Polivy, the attorney for the A.I.A.W.: "In 1972, before Title IX, women's intercollegiate sports had 1% of the budget of the men's. I would judge today that women's programs?the best of them???are running between 15% and 18% of the men's programs on money. And on the average, women's programs are running about 10%. Colleges are just now starting to feel the impact of what's been happening on the elementary and secondary level. I would expect that participation rate to rise...