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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlanta, offers boxed reviews of skin houses. Atlanta's strip joints do have their idiosyncrasies (they boast Internet addresses, atm machines and free valet parking, and one, on Corporate Boulevard, actually advertises "corporate atmosphere"), yet the unbroken lines of Girls-R-Fun clubs and joints presenting "250 Platinum Girls" throw some of the city's sobriety into question. When Billy Payne appeared on Moscow TV live (via satellite) this year, extending "a most warm Southern welcome," he was standing just across from the new city jail and next to a topless...
...also takes great pride in the used-car lot he opened last December. He and Camelia, he says, "succeed in our life too, day by day, year by year." As for Karolyi, he says only Zmeskal could have made him bleed. He isn't concerned that the Olympics will throw Moceanu off her stride--or off the beam. "Dominique is naturally self-confident," Bela says, then laughs. "Sometimes too much...
...able to get shelf space in half the British supermarkets--no small problem when four grocery chains control more than 60% of the market. The reason: Coke and Pepsi locked up the shelves with exclusive agreements and got down-and-dirty on price. "Coca-Cola decided to throw all their marketing skills against us, to kill it in the first year," says Will Whitehorn, director of Virgin corporate affairs...
...sports tournaments before the noon parade. The lieutenant governor of Idaho, an Eagle resident and a convicted drunk driver, is always on hand. The National Guard, the sheriff, the rodeo queens and the school band all show up to march. Politicians in old-fashioned cars and businesses on floats throw candy. Then the real fun starts when the "wet zone" rounds the corner and the Little League, scouting troops and school organizations let loose with the water balloons...
...secret police and totalitarian control over every aspect of life. This sounds more like election propaganda than informed analysis. Sure, it seems ominous that a Communist candidate like Gennadi Zyuganov is doing well with the voters, but having gone through their own Great Depression, many Russians just want to throw the rascals out of office and try something different. Americans are not well served by stories that try to reduce the complexities of Russian politics to good guys vs. bad guys. President Boris Yeltsin has used up nearly all the goodwill he once deserved. It is high time that serious...