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Schell's optimism and self-conscious naivete are clearly heartfelt, but they do not alone make policy, and the author's bouts of wishful thinking only underscore the incompleteness of the more complete proposals. They also beg the two crucial questions that Schell leaves unanswered; namely, how does one convince a country to abandon all its weapons? and, once Schell's plan is put into effect, how do we make a clean break with our policy of deference, a policy that he has convincingly argued always carries the threat of nuclear holocaust...
Below even the garbage pickers, perhaps, are those who can do nothing but beg. On the Zócalo, the vast central square where the monumental cathedral shoulders the equally monumental presidential palace, a balding man in a frayed black suit plays mournfully on his violin while a haggard woman with a baby in her arms stands next to him and holds out an empty tin can. A block away, at the corner of Avenida Madero, a white-stubbled man with no legs holds up a few packs of Chiclets for sale. Just beyond him in the dusk sits...
...U.S.S.R. is still killing and maiming innocent people in Afghanistan. To beg the Soviets to participate in the Games is one more example of America's inability to face up to the world...
Please do whatever you can to get heroin legalized for easing pain. As a nurse, I hear so many brave but torture-ridden people cry for relief from pain. So many patients just don't respond to morphine. Why must they scream and beg for relief...
...goin to make an example of Milton Colman!" cried the religious leader on a radio show broadcast from Chicago. "What do [we] intend to do to Mr. Coleman? At this point, no physical harm . . . We're going to punish the traitor and make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs." Coleman's wife, he promised, would "go to hell . . . the same punishment that's due that no-good, filthy traitor." The speaker: Louis Farrakhan, leader of the black Nation of Islam...