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...earnest the Marines in their desire to bring peace and democracy to this pitiful, war-torn country, their presence can not change the sectional hatred and hostility that has fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will continue to bicker and fight regardless of any foreign military presence. Foreign armies many times larger than a meager batallion of Marines have unsuccessfully tried to pacify Lebanon. Faced with a pointless, perepetuzl war of attrition Israel chose to withdraw. Why then is the United States becoming ever more enmeshed in this senseless...
...movements meet that mandate? Palumba gives the Boston coalition a 50-50 chance of being born, and an even smaller chance of proving meaningful. But the would-be coalition squabbling at the Statehouse tomorrow and next week should remember the 250,000 who gathered without King. Before they bicker and lose the moment, they should remember the maturity and power in that crowd--in its peacefulness, its determination, in the advice of the mother who said. "You won't get lost today. We're all walking the same way, and we'll all get there together...
...junior. Students have the option of "going independent," as many minorities do, or joining one of the highly profiled Princeton eating clubs. Of the dozen or so clubs, only five remain selective--Ivy Club, Cap and Gown, Tiger Inn, Cottage and Tower--which one can join through the traditional "Bicker" process, similar to punching season for Harvard finals clubs. One can also join a nonselective "open" club through a lottery system and waiting list...
...They bicker over the details of their previous meetings. She says that he has learned nothing from her inspirations: "The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function-and yet this is the best you can come up with. Muses . . . I mean, Christ...
...much as she radiates pure will in Reds. But Faith Dunlap is a much less interesting woman and wife than Louise Bryant, and provides a much less challenging character for Keaton's talents. Albert Finney portrays her husband George, the archetypal, egotistical-yet-vulnerable San Francisco writer. They bicker in a picturesque old clapboard house softly nestled in the bucolic mellowness of northern California. Of their daughters, the three younger ones giggle, fight and roll their eyes throughout, as if the movie were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes...