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...noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others, it quickly tarnishes. Some villagers balk because the advance team has already pushed on to the next villages, leaving in its wake a "shadow government" that coerces support and suppresses criticism. Others are shocked when the guerrillas destroy businesses belonging to people who have refused to pay N.P.A. "taxes." Most important, many who may initially welcome...
EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS remain deaf to all this reasoning. They seem to prefer continued strong ties to the "hard-line" Arab states and favor leaving the role of "terrorism policeman" to the United States. But the time may come when Americans balk at this burden, and the time may also come when Europeans find themselves extremely vulnerable to more than just terrorism. Continued appeasement of men like Khadafy entails many risks, not the least of which is the strengthening of radical hands in the Arab balance of power...
...intentioned, come home with the wrong stuff! Remember what happened when you sent them shopping for video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least three hours in front of the tube on a Saturday morning. If they balk, tell them that you're appearing in one of the commercials, or that your friend Freddie's wealthy dad, Mr. ceo, watches every Saturday to pick up business tips. Only when they've put in their tube time will they begin to understand the vital differences between...
...Emerald City as Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) rediscovers it is about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody...
...support for the South African government, Bok stubbornly clings to the fiction that Harvard's continued investments in South Africa-related companion can lead to some meaningful change in South Africa. If he is concerned enough about apartheid to lend his name to anti-apartheid legislation, he should not balk at a prime opportunity to enlist something far more powerful to help the cause: Harvard's millions...