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...Seoul beat out Nagoya in archrival Japan for the right to stage the 1988 Summer Games, South Koreans looked at the event as a welcome opportunity to throw themselves an elaborate coming-out party. Invite the people of the world, and let them admire the economic miracle that had risen from the rubble...
...time Sein Lwin fell, the official death toll in the disturbances had risen to 98, though foreign diplomats in Rangoon placed the figure at several times that number. Unofficial estimates held that more than 1,000 protesters had been killed by security forces and that many thousands more had suffered injuries...
...expected a radical transformation of the world and that this would involve the coming of a heavenly figure," says Adela Yarbro Collins of the University of Notre Dame. But, she adds, "Jesus did not believe himself to be this figure." In this liberal interpretation, the disciples experienced Jesus as risen from the dead and became convinced that Jesus himself was the heavenly person who was to come. They then introduced this novel idea into Jesus' teaching...
...burst. The $3.5 trillion now invested in the Tokyo market makes it world's largest. Even the devastation wrought by last October's global stock only temporarily dampened the spirits of Tokyo traders. Although the Dow is now 12% lower than it was before the crash, the Nikkei has risen 6% above pre- crash level, to new highs...
...maybe there was more than cynicism behind the idea. The drug problem--some would say hysteria--has risen to the top of the public's list of concerns, and polling shows that Americans view drugs as the number one problem facing the country. With this concern in mind, the Republicans have been thinking about naming a Drug Czar of their...