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...these days there is nothing normal about Soviet politics. In a way, there never has been. In the bad old days of Stalinism and stagnation, the personality of the leader mattered so much because he stood at the top of a hierarchical system -- and at the center of a highly centralized one. What he said counted because anyone who disagreed with him could be shot or at least banished from public life...
Best Food on the Road Not so long ago, most U.S. hotel meals seemed designed to horrify any gourmet. But in 1990 the top-rated hotels in the first Zagat U.S. Travel Survey of more than 1,400 inns, resorts and spas all boasted superb cuisine as well as superluxury accommodations. So what if few but foreign tourists can afford them...
...found traces of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in samples of the green-bottled bubbly. Then the French government forced Perrier to drop the words naturally carbonated from its European labels. ("Naturally" had earlier been deemed a no-no in the U.S.) Evian has now supplanted Perrier as America's top-selling imported bottled water...
Reassuring things, lists. They affirm that the buzzing, blooming confusion of the universe can be reduced to a tidy vertical column. But wait, there's a better way to do this. Herewith the Top Four Reasons Why People Love Lists...
...Life Millie, the White House's resident English springer spaniel, earned more advances than any other member of the Bush clan. The First Pooch released her "autobiography," as dictated to Barbara Bush, and then pawed her way past such rival authors as Ronald Reagan toward the top of the best-seller lists...