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During the 1950s, TV series without continuing characters or story lines, such as Playhouse 90 and The U.S. Steel Hour, provided some of prime time's most illustrious moments. In 1985 this kind of liberation from a rigid weekly format offers viewers a new and welcome sensation: the feeling that on any given week, they might be shaken from their easy chairs by the sight of something totally unexpected...
Babangida, a career soldier trained at U.S. and British military schools, declared in his first address as head of state that Buhari was "too rigid and uncompromising." Later the new President repealed a law that banned criticism of the government, released several journalists from prison, reviewed the cases of an estimated 500 political prisoners jailed by Buhari, and promised to curb excesses by the secret police. Radio Lagos reported he had also approved the appointment of 28 military and police officers to the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council. Perhaps the most important promise made by the new military leaders...
...older, more extreme version of Fundamentalism is still around, symbolized most visibly by South Carolina's Bob Jones University (enrollment: 5,500), which did not admit blacks until 1971 and still forbids interracial dating. Chancellor Bob Jones Jr. of the superstrict institution (supervised dating, no pop music, rigid dress code) almost seems to take pride in what he jokingly calls the school's "lunatic-fringe" reputation...
Imagine that every American had the same weight and was placed on a flat, rigid map of the entire country. The balancing point would be just west of De Soto in Jefferson County, Mo. The center of population has been inching west by about 40 miles a decade, from outside Baltimore in 1790 and finally crossing the Mississippi in the 1970s...
...past five years, Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping has instituted sweeping economic reforms, moving away from rigid state controls and closer to the free-market system. Capitalism advanced a step further last week when the government announced that price controls in Peking would be lifted on more than 1,800 food items, effectively raising their costs by some 50%. The price reforms had already been introduced in 22 other cities and autonomous regions...