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Q. So Post-Millennial syndrome is the feeling of disappointment over having been worked up into a frenzy over nothing?
It can't be a good feeling when FIDEL CASTRO pulls you out of the game. The Cuban President, expanding his authoritative duties to include team manager, fiddled repeatedly with the lineup in a friendly baseball game against Venezuela last week following a summit between the two countries. Ever the...
A. Certainly, we must count our blessings. But for years we've been told day in and day out that the year 2000 teems with consequence of all sorts: numerical, technological, theological. So when we wake up and smell the skim latte and discover that nothing has really changed other...
A. A resentment born of the suspicion that all along the media were up to their usual tricks, hyping a notional calamity to the max in order to make us buy more copies and tune into TV specials titled The Day the Food Ran Out. Then, too, followers of certain...
A. Yeltsin, the Russian President, isn't going to last forever, no matter how many Texas heart surgeons we send over there. And when he goes, oh boy. Given the Russian proclivity for the Strong Man, we're bound to end up with Ivan the Terrible, Part 2.