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According to Hunter, those who brave the linesand needles are automatically registered in araffle for "Interview with a Vampire" posters andrubber rats autographed by author Anne Rice
When he took the brave step of entering into a self-rule agreement with Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization 16 months ago, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised his countrymen peace with security. Ever since, Israelis have enjoyed little peace and less security. Rabin's political stock has plummeted, and many citizens question whether the experiment in peacemaking should go on. The negotiations are stalemated by growing ill will and Palestinian anger over Israel's continued building of West Bank settlements. As the terrorists take the psychological initiative, the maneuvering room for both Rabin and Arafat is fast running...
...shock absorbers and shudder exactly like an earthquake, escalating in force from 3 to 7 on the Japanese version of the Richter scale. The willing victim is supposed to learn the tricks of quake survival: turn off the stove, open the door and hide under the table. Thousands of brave souls take the ride...
WHAT HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH THINKS ABOUT the brave new world of technological change can largely be traced back to the works of two best- selling authors: Alvin Toffler, 66, and George Gilder, 55. When Gingrich tosses out such concepts as "the Third Wave" or the "overthrow of matter," when he talks about the "demassification" of U.S. society and the "bottom- up" freedoms created by the personal computer, he is quoting chapter and verse from the ideas of Toffler and Gilder...
...defiance or disassociation made against such a regime are rarely justified, particularly if those making the gesture pay no price whatever for it while imposing all the costs on others who may not agree with them. In this the objecting members of the Faculty are quite unlike the brave few who raised their voices against the Nazi expulsions. The objectors remain entirely free to urge their arguments in the political realm or in the courts, where they may yet prevail. Charles Pried Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Harvard Law School