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Late in the afternoon, the Paratrooper is trucked with the others to barracks alongside the airfield at Fort Bragg. Here they will spend the night. But first their jumpmasters must check them in and assign them positions for the drop. It is a long, dull procedure, and the Paratrooper smiles when he thinks how much like a flock of sheep or a herd of cows they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping...
Crane too was frustrated by the cycle of inattention. He blames the "liberal inclination" of the press, and he proposes that candidates who appear on television interview shows be forced to assign "a dollar value" to those appearances, which would count against total spending limits...
...still assign to yourself a global role and to us a very limited, regional sphere of influence," says a foreign ministry official in Moscow. "Well, you'll have to get over that notion. It's outdated and unjust. We too are now a global power, and we have the right to compete with you on a global scale. That is only fair if we are truly your equals...
...work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework? "I assign work to the child with a note of finality, and I keep after him until he realizes that I will pester until the work is done. He might as well do it in the first place." Demands that take teachers' time from teaching? "Sometimes you have to fight...
...demonstrated the "blatant racism" of the American judiciary constitutes poor thanks to the magistracy that cleared the defendant's record. Ms. Russell would have had a more vivid story if Judge Grabau had shown less respect for the rules of evidence and had played the racist role which journalists assign to white magistrates in their allegories of American jurisprudence. But I wonder if Mr. Ezera would have shared the reporter's excitement. John Bovey...