Word: rightly
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Comedy Channel). While we watch campy old movies (Rocketship X-M; The Corpse Vanishes), three outer-space wisecrackers provide tongue-in-cheek patter from the front row. This goofy stunt, first cooked up for a Minneapolis UHF station, is funnier than it has any right...
Apparently determined to put the idea to a test, a communist hard-liner named Sazhi Umalatova stepped to the podium almost as soon as the Congress of People's Deputies opened last week. Charging that Gorbachev had lost the "moral right to lead the country," she moved a vote of no confidence in him. It failed, 1,288 to 426, but the spectacle was deeply unsettling to Eduard Shevardnadze, who asked in his resignation speech, "Is this normal...
These are the public signs of the rise of the right, symptoms of the approaching dictatorship Shevardnadze warned against. Only a year ago, the liberal Interregional Group of Deputies, led by maverick Boris Yeltsin, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and crusading historian Yuri Afanasyev and claiming more than 300 members, held the parliamentary center stage. The group called a meeting on the eve of this Congress session and fewer than 90 members turned up. Setting the pace now is the bloc of about 470 conservative Deputies calling themselves Soyuz, or Union, and dedicated to preventing the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
...those with a merry nature, it may be possible to find some hidden value in the sober spirit of this Christmas season. There is a pleasure in searching for just the right gift, rather than throwing money at fads; in making presents rather than buying them; in savoring the lessons of the season, about generosity and devotion and mercy. Whatever the state of the economy, it would have been hard to waltz blithely through the holidays while the families of 280,000 troops kept vigil. As it is, the burdens, and hopes, of the season will be widely shared...
Most Painful Dilemma The right-to-die issue heated up when the parents of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose Missouri woman, petitioned the Supreme Court for permission to remove her feeding tube. The high court upheld a state's right to demand evidence of the patient's intent. A Missouri judge then ruled that the tube could be removed...