European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller fiction 1 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week. 1 weeks on list 10 2 message from Nam by Danielle steel last week 2 weeks on list 9 3. The women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 5. Weeks on list 2 4 Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman last week 3 weeks on list 7. 5 get shorty by Elmore Leonard last week 11. Weeks on list 2 a 6 the stand by Stephen King last week 6 weeks on list 15 a ,. 7 september by Rosamunde Pilcher last week 4 weeks on list 18 8 stardust by Robert b. Parker last week 8 weeks on list 4 9 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 7 weeks on list 26 10 hammerheads by Dale Brown last week 14 weeks on list 3 non fiction 1 men at work by George f. Will last week 1 a weeks on list 19. 2 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry last week 3 weeks on list 12 3 the politics of Rich and poor by Kevin Phillips last week 2 weeks on list 3 4 barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and. John Helyar last week 4 weeks on list 30 5 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 8 weeks on list 3 6 Meg trends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene last week 5 weeks on list .30 7 father son amp co. By Thomas j. Watson or. And Peter Petre last week 7 weeks on list 11 8 inside Job by Stephen Pizzo Mary Fricker and Paul Muolo last week not ranked weeks on list 1 a 9 every spy a Prince by Dan Raviv and Yossi Meiman last week 15 weeks on list 2. 10 done to shoot its Only me by Bob Hope with Melville Shavelson last week 12 weeks on list paperback fiction 1 presumed innocent by Scott Turow weeks on. List 38 2 Clear and present danger by Tom Clancy weeks on list 5 3 the pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett weeks on list 4 4 the endearment by Lavyrle Spencer weeks on list 2 5 while my pretty one sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark weeks on list 8 a 6 rightfully mine by Doris Mortman weeks on list 5. 7 the Joy Luck club by Amy Tan weeks on list 13 8 Beverly Hills by Pat Booth weeks on list 3 9 blessings by Belva Plain weeks on list 7 10 Garden of lies by Eileen Goudge weeks on list 9 paperback non fiction 1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 39 2 its always something by Gilda Radner weeks on list 8 3 when Rabbit howls by Truddie Chase weeks of list 11 4 a Briet history of time by Stephen  weeks on a 11 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 356 a 6 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l Friedman weeks on list 1 7 the bridesmaids by Judith Bataan Quine. Weeks on list 2 8 sudden fury by Leslie Walker weeks on list 2 9 a woman named Jackie by c. David Heymann weeks on list 1310 summer of �?T49 by David Halberstam weeks on list 19 a. Paperback miscellaneous 1 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list -26 a. 2 codependent no More by Melanie Beattie weeks on list 102 a. A 3 weirdos from another planet by Bill Watterson weeks on list 22. 4 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 15 5 50 simple things you can do to Sava the Earth by the earthworks group weeks on list 28 compiled by lha new York times. Stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 message from Nam by Danielle steel 2 the stand by Stephen King 3 dragon by Clive Cussler 4 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow 5 Bright Star by Harold Coyle i the bad place by Dean Koontz 7 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 8 the Bourne ultimatum by Robert Luttum 9 purpose of evasion by Greg Dina a 10 steel Tiger by Mark Berent non fiction 1 wealth without risk by Charles Givens 2 men at work by George Wilt. 3 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry 4 father son and co. By Thomas j. Watson or. J and Peter Petre 5 don�?T1 shoot it s Only me by Bob Hope  Melville Shavelson a g it was on fire when i Lay Down on ii by Robe it Fulghum 7 barbarians at the Cate by Ryan Eurry Jun 8 whereas Waldo by Martin Hano Ord a a 9 head first by Norman a sums 10 Webster s ninth new collegiate dictionary Index More peeves Crotchet and irks James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate this session of the curl of Pec vet Crotchet and irks having concluded its recess Call sits final set of witnesses against abuse or the English language Harry g. Wilson of Stuart fla., relates this tale of terror. He fell to browsing through websters collegiate thesaurus one Day and found to his amazement a pragmatist defined As a a busybody butt in Butinsky kibitzer meddler rubber neck Snoop. The court is aghast. A pragmatist is a realist As distinguished from an idealist. Shame on the Guy from websters or. John Tuhy of Portland ore., recently experienced a similar Shock. He was browsing through the Penguin rhyming dictionary. There he teamed to his considerable Surprise that Cuba and scuba May be rhymed with tuber and Goober. The last gentleman of Potomi Nence to rhyme Cuba with tuber was John of Kennedy. Shame on the Penguin poet Bertha Luther of Tucson complains of a More importantly a As in a More importantly the Senate bit provides. The court is ruled on this matter before but one must persevere. The preferred phrase if the construction must be employed at All is a More important. Better still try a of greater  John b. Ballard of Bend ore., is irked by Quot Rife Quot As in Quot the nations capital is Rife with Rumo Sand a the computer models Are Rife with  the court understands the complaint it is the rumours and the uncertainty that Are Rife not the capital or the models but the court is in a forgiving Mode. In the sense of widespread prevalent abundant or plentiful a Rife Quot has been around since the 13th Century. The challenged constructions Are misdemeanours not felonies. Sentence suspended. Shelley Allen of Seattle complains of a spec mesas in a the spotted owl is an endangered  the Plain tilts thought is that the owl is a specie not a species. Nope. Overruled. Specie is coined Money. Species is a taxonomic category. The noun is the same in both singular and plural the owl is a species Hawks and Falcons Are species. On that note the court takes a summer recess. Submissions of peeves Crotchet and irks always Are Welcome. Send them to James j. Kilpatrick s column in care of this newspaper