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...year-old woman was found dead Saturday morning in her Cambridge apartment after she was apparently struck repeatedly with a blunt instrument, police said...
Those who have grown weary of the stale vocabulary still embraced by some feminists may enjoy this book's blunt indictment of the we-are-all-victims mentality. But others may be put off by Roiphe's awkward musings and disturbing flippancy. Feminism thrives on many voices, but The Morning After contributes little to the discourse...
...grade war with Israeli occupation troops in southern Lebanon and have attacked Israel from wadis in the area. Israeli-government spokesmen claimed that their forces were counterattacking them with great precision, targeting guerrilla bases and homes, offices and training centers. In fact, Israel was pounding the country with a blunt and heavy instrument, reducing much of southern Lebanon to rubble. The onslaught was so fierce and went on so long that the U.S. and key Arab states wondered uneasily if the resumption of Middle East peace talks might yet be in peril...
...York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer...
From the day three months later when Clinton and Reno first met and he offered her the job, their styles were, to put it politely, complementary. Where Clinton was twice shy, having been charred by his earlier nominations, Reno was blunt, irrepressible. White House officials tried to coach this daughter and sister of journalists on how to dodge reporters' questions gracefully. Abortion, for one, she was urged to avoid. "What the President of the United States told me as we started into the Rose Garden on February 11, 1993," she recalls, was, "Don't blow...