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...ever notice this weird disparity between our fear about the Balkans and our self-confidence about Somalia? Did we ever wonder about what attitudes might be underlying our different policy positions...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Somalia--White Man's Burden? | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...family constantly called upon to battle with balky computers and weird electronics. I hook up the VCRs and manipulate the laser disc player, and I have yet to come home without Mom asking me to take a look at some mechanical thing in the house...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Something Old, Nothing New | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...logical or strictly emotional. There are always spreadsheets to scrutinize, sure, but there's also that extra-rational accumulation of wishful hunches and adrenal instinct that makes people finally just go for it. Since show-business executives are uncommonly sensitive to go-for-it twitches, it would have been weird if a competing bidder had not stepped in to turn the friendly merger of Paramount Communications and Viacom into the high-strung, insanely complicated struggle it became last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator Ego Is of Paramount Importance | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Your stylist will nod sympathetically and ask open questions, and will usually say some weird thing about how your hair is alive and you have to listen...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Risky Hipness at the Salon | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...FRUMPIES--Weird Machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB'S Underground Rock Top 20 | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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