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...sane. Peace has broken out so many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...
...fiction. Before one fateful Wednesday in November, the most serious question that plagues Lauren during her Russian Revolution seminar is which of its 11 students is the most attractive. But then Russel Bernard, the star of both the seminar and Lauren's personal musings, is murdered and his body thrown into the Charles, in a manner that bizarrely recalls the murder of Rasputin discussed in her last seminar meeting. And on this clue alone, Lauren, with the help of a roommate and an upstairs neighbor, turns detective...
...problems argue against American disengagement. Without America military support and advisors, the Salvadoran government would be hard pressed to survive. Violence would only increase as rightists lashed out in desperation and left-wing guerillas pressed their offensive across the nation. Improvements brought about by careful American diplomacy would be thrown to the winds. Before long, whatever remained of the country would fall under Marxist domination...
...into Iraq in hopes of forcing the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the creation in Baghdad of an Islamic republic modeled on Iran's own. Iran has routinely executed large numbers of Iraqi prisoners of war, in violation of the Geneva Convention. More recently, Khomeini has thrown tens of thousands of virtually untrained Iranian teen-agers and even children into battle in human-wave attacks, seemingly oblivious to the carnage. By contrast, Saddam Hussein, who now wants to bring the war to an end while he still has a job and a country, began to look almost...
...around the stage. We didn't dance. We watched and threw money." At Garnett Elementary School, Principal Gladys Johnson invited the boys to perform at an assembly. (Admission: 10¢. Proceeds split with the Jackson family.) About 1,200 students turned out, and this time around, not a rock was thrown. "The children really enjoyed that show," Johnson remembers. "I could not believe how they idolized those Jackson 5 boys." Johnson also kept an eye on Michael's academics, and once advised the fourth-grader to bone up on his math. "My manager," Michael replied, "will take care of my money...