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Thus calmly and apparently bloodlessly, the three-year-old civilian government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy...
...much that we need to make ends meet," says Jon Hilliard, his three-year-old at his side. Hilliard works for the Street Department in Crown Point, Ind., and as a self-employed carpenter. His wife Sharron is a gym teacher, and together they earn something over $60,000 a year. "It's the way we get extra things. I grew up in a poor family with four kids, and we had no extras. There's no way my kids are going to be like that. We want to make sure that if they're not good athletes or smart...
This hip, TV-savvy attitude is also a major feature of Nick at Nite, the three-year-old companion service aimed primarily at adults, which takes over in the evenings when Nickelodeon signs off. The channel offers mostly old reruns, from The Donna Reed Show to Saturday Night Live, but the retreads are given a self-parodying spin with tongue-in-cheek promos (a "How to Be Donna Reed" home-study course) and special events like a "Do-It-Yourself Sitcom" contest. In that one, viewers were asked why their life ought to be a comedy series. Three families were...
...masters also suggested ending what itcalled a three-year-old "experiment" of givingfreshmen their lottery numbers before requiringthem to list their top three house choices. Priorto 1986, students chose their roommates andselected houses before entering the lottery...
...three-year-old program, called "Hooked on School," provides academic and emotional support services to seventh- and eighth-grade students...