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...fought at Penn State University has nothing to do with political correctness. In State College, Pa., ideological warfare has been eclipsed by the grand finale of a heated competition between soft-drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi for an exclusive 10-year contract to be the school's official thirst quencher. Pepsi won the honors, and as a result no other sodas will be sold anywhere on the university's 21 campuses. In return, Pepsi is awarding Penn State $14 million, money that will go to scholarship funds and construction of a new sports arena...
...cutting back on press appearances, which had grown increasingly heated. Sensitive to criticism when it hits home, Perot made no secret of the fact that he was unhappy with his coverage in TIME -- especially a story in the April 6 issue that said he had displayed a "thirst for publicity...
...argument for retribution would be even easier to dismiss if it consisted only of a base thirst for revenge. But in its most sophisticated form, the argument is far weightier and more interesting than that. Society, writes Walter Berns, an eloquent defender of capital punishment, must manifest a terrible anger in the face of a terrible crime, for nothing less will suffice to "remind us of the moral order by which alone we can live as human beings...
...style ringlets bouncing on his shoulders, he strides to the middle of the floor to show them how the steps should be done. Morris, 35, is tall and bulky. There is more than a hint of flab around his waist, an authentic beer belly, the result of a , prodigious thirst that can cause him to put away as many as four bottles within an hour. No one in the room looks less like a dancer. But as he performs the individual steps, they suddenly coalesce into a transcendent mix of movement, music and soul-stirring emotion...
...struck out on his own, launching Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems with $1,000 in savings. He sold it to General Motors 22 years later for $2.5 billion. Along the way, Perot has displayed a willingness to use his wealth for heroic purposes -- and a thirst for publicity. In 1969 he tried to deliver two planeloads of medicine, clothing and food to U.S. POWs in North Vietnam. Hanoi rebuffed him. A decade later, he organized a private commando operation that rescued two EDS employees from a prison in Iran. The adventure was memorialized in the best-selling thriller On Wings...