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About 75 people crammed into the fiction area of the Harvard Book Store last night to hear Alexander Cockburn, a radical columnist and author of "Corruptions of Empire," assail the American media...
...melancholy moment in the Reagan Administration. The old magic is gone forever, lost not so much to a single shock, the Iran-contra affair, as to the thousand and one arrows that constantly assail leaders, causing them to falter as the wounds accumulate. The Reagan nerve ends, so exquisitely conditioned by the long years of struggling to get to the top, are dulled by the isolation and the sycophancies of ultimate power...
...dogs' well-organized lovers assail all such criticism of their pets as unfair. They insist that the pit bull is a friendly animal whose behavior depends on how it is treated and trained. Says Robert Rush of the Los Angeles department of animal regulation: "It's not a dog problem; it's a people problem." Contends Bill Leamer, an officer of Missouri's Sho-Me Pit Bull Club: "There's no dog that has a bigger heart. You can just feel the love coming from this dog." For those who have felt the pit bull's teeth rather than...
Since I would never dream of learning the real names of the things which infest my sections, I always give them functional names of my own. Therefore, as I sit in a room listening to The Angry Young Man assail Chekhov's validity as a dramatist, I find myself avoiding the unsettling gaze of Morticia, surveying the impressive dimensions of the Snufalopagus in her sweat suit, and looking wistfully at the pale, frail features of the Pardoner...
...look of disgust when he was picked out at the crowded defense tables and identified as the American distributor for the imported heroin. More such fingering is expected as Buscetta continues to testify in a complex trial that could last as long as six months. Defense attorneys will assail Buscetta's credibility, and are expected to charge that he is singing in an effort to avoid prosecution for Mob murders in Sicily. But to date, Buscetta has provided the most revealing glimpse into the Mafia since ( American Mobster Joseph Valachi first outlined the structure and the secret name...