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...MAJORITY OPINION looks backward and dodges important questions about the recent technological tragedy. Rather than gleaning the fact of our mortality from the death of Christa McAuliffe and the other six astronauts, the editorial should have posed questions to NASA. It should take something less than the worst disaster in a quarter century of manned spaceflight to point out to us that people do die. We should be asking: Was the shuttle accident due to damaged fuel tanks or broken turbine blades? How can these mechanical faults, if they in fact were the cause, be avoided in future flights? These...
...part of the objective observer is played by Malik's bespectacled older brother, Mirza, who concerns himself solely with the outcomes of events. His detached perspective suggests that of the filmmaker, a suggestion further enhanced by his fascination with cameras, and with what little cinema he can find in backward Sarajevo...
...Monday--President Reagan remarks in his State of the Union address that backward nations could learn a lesson from the "moral fortitude of [South African Prime Minister] Pete Botha's regime," which he calls "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers." He adds that the approval of $6 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, on the condition that they bomb Managua's leading manufacturer of designer sunglasses, is "a victory for the United St--I mean, democracy everywhere...
...Their team was pretty solid," Boyum noted. "They could have played their order backward and it wouldn't have mattered--they were pretty consistent up the middle...
...better example of the tangible benefit from veneration for education can be found than in the Jewish community in America. Beer points out the similarity in the two group's American backgrounds: "Both Jews and Black Americans came from impoverished and backward ghettos. Both were subject to severe legal and informal harassment for centuries, not to mention periodic slaughter.... Some find it incredible that Jews come from a background similar to theirs...