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...Glenn strained a hamstring and sat out training camp and preseason, Parcells was asked about the prognosis for his young receiver. "She's doing O.K.," he sniped. Glenn, who has overcome plenty more than mere ankle biting, shrugged it off. "There are worse things," he said. Now on the threshold of his first Super Bowl, Glenn has even brought around Parcells, who recently compared Glenn's game to that of Hall of Fame wide receiver Paul Warfield. Lots of professional ballplayers overcome adversity, but precious few have it for lunch the way Terry Glenn...
...realm of emotional development that marijuana does its damage. In any case, it seems there has been a mistake. Pot is not the drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics...
Mobutu remains the missing man in Zaire's latest crisis, out of sight and in questionable command of his nation. Even in the best of times, his absence would provoke perilous consequences for a country hovering on the threshold of economic collapse after 30 years of high-handed rule. But since September, when Zaire's eastern provinces fell under attack from local Tutsi rebels, Mobutu's uncertain condition--and continued hold on power--has been a matter of dire import. Three weeks ago, Le Monde reported that his prostate cancer had metastasized to his bones. But a guest whom Mobutu...
...sleep over her bid for an eighth term: since taking office in 1982, she has won each election with at least 62% of the vote. Her father once chaired the Democratic National Committee, and Kennelly is proud of her political roots. She recently introduced nanny tax reform (raising the threshold at which employers must pay Social Security for domestic workers) and a law penalizing deadbeat parents...
Several years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested that Americans were "defining deviancy down," arguing that out-of-wedlock births, for example, had reached such epidemic proportions that Americans had lowered the threshold of acceptable moral behavior. When it comes to the highest office in the land, voters have defined the presidency down. Richard Nixon's crimes, John Kennedy's infidelities, Lyndon Johnson's ballot rigging, Ronald Reagan's and George Bush's involvement in Iran-contra--these disclosures have so eroded the moral capital of the highest job in the land that Americans expect less from the man who holds...