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...rest of the world celebrated Earth Day, the followers of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (a.k.a. Guru Ma) in Montana's Paradise Valley were cleaning up their own environmental mess. Thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel have leaked out of underground tanks built by Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant in preparation for Armageddon...
Dorrington's wild pitching was the one low point of the afternoon for the triumphant Crimson. The senior righthander had trouble finding the plate, issuing seven walks, including four free passes in a two-run Tufts sixth...
...cookie cutters. The attempt to avoid any appearance of being well groomed or even neat has a quality of desperation about it and suggests a calculated and phony deprivation. We shun conventionality, but we put on a uniform to do it. An appearance of alienation is the triumphant goal, to be pursued in oversize sweaters and muddy sneakers...
While the vote was widely interpreted as a grass-roots thumbs-up for the rapid unification of the two Germanys, preparations for the funeral of the G.D.R.'s failed experiment in communism have only begun. To guide East Germany through the intricacies of unification, the triumphant conservatives in East Berlin must first build a government. Last week the CDU reached out to the Social Democrats, asking them to join a "grand coalition" in hopes of forging the two-thirds parliamentary majority required for constitutional changes...
When the votes were tallied, Shamir sank his head into his hands, perhaps to blot out the triumphant smile on Peres' face. President Chaim Herzog is now expected to give Peres the first shot at forming a new coalition, a process that could take weeks -- and that typically brings out the worst in Israeli politics. Since Labor has only 39 seats in the Knesset, against Likud's 40, Peres must bargain for the support of the smaller parties, ranging from Arab communists to Orthodox rabbis. The balance of power is held by the fickle religious parties, which control 18 seats...