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...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deoderant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must...
Noriega's ties to U.S. intelligence agencies date back to the 1950s, when he began to pass along information about his fellow students at a military academy. Later he went on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency, reportedly earning as much as $200,000 a year. The general can plausibly argue that U.S. Presidents stretching back to Richard Nixon were aware of his drug involvement -- no one more so than former CIA director George Bush -- but looked the other way to avoid losing a valuable source of intelligence. At a press conference on Friday, Bush sought to squelch speculation...
...Salinger and Greta Garbo. These people achieved fabled recognitions and then decided to barricade themselves against a public that knew where they were and what they looked like. Pynchon, by contrast, somehow had the foresight to hide from the beginning; the only photographs of him in circulation date from his late adolescence. As a result, he resembles, in his freedom, an apparition he includes in Vineland, namely " 'Chuck,' the world's most invisible robot," an android that operates on an erratic airline between Los Angeles and Honolulu. "How invisible," the plane's p.a. system announces, "you might wonder, is 'Chuck...
Gorbachev said later that he has ordered that a law be written and published establishing a mechanism for secession from the Soviet Union, a right guaranteed by the country's 1977 constitution but not recognized to date...
...year of scandals, as the pro teams go back to work (and I use that term loosely). Wade Boggs will be photographed having sex with his daily chicken dinner. Yankee manager Pete Rose will lose $1000 for guessing incorrectly the date of Dwight Gooden's cocaine relapse. Larry Holmes, emerging from retirement to fight Tyson, will be caught with lead in his gloves. Tyson will beat him up anyway. Jack Nicklaus will be caught trying to improve his lie on the $1.3 million 18th hole of the Skins Game. "I was, uh, counting the dimples on my ball," Nicklaus will...