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Four years ago the Faculty Council took a deep breath and made a rare statement of courageous principle...
...thing about prohibition is that it keeps us from having to confront all the other little addictions that get us through the day. It's the NutraSweet in the coffee we use to wash down the chocolate mousse; a dad's "Just say no" commandments borne on martini-scented breath. "Don't do drugs," a Members Only ad advises. "Do clothes." Well, why "do" anything? Why not live more lightly, without compulsions of any kind? Then there's TV, the addiction whose name we can hardly speak -- the poor man's virtual reality, the substance-free citizen's 24-hour...
...bring an immediate payoff for the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo, where about 10,000 people -- including 1,500 children -- have been killed since Bosnian Serbs launched the war in April 1992. If the guns pull back and the U.N.-brokered cease-fire holds, Sarajevans can draw a confident breath and move around their city in the knowledge that they will not be shot by snipers or blown to pieces. That achievement alone is worth considerable effort, and it could lend impetus to similar settlements for other ostensibly "safe areas" where Muslims are surrounded by both Serbs and Croats...
Pudgy, stringy-haired, constantly out of breath, Murphy has deteriorated & since he was incarcerated in March 1993. A local attorney has filed suit against the Bureau of Prisons seeking his release, but Murphy doesn't really have time for a protracted legal battle. When he arrived at Rochester, he says, he could walk a lap or two on the prison track. Now he's winded after climbing down a flight of stairs. He must sleep virtually sitting up, and gets oxygen all night. He fears that a heart attack or stroke could leave him on life support rather than kill...
This aardvark thing is a breath of fresh air. Meanwhile, Sebastian seems to be stepping up to meet the competition. Keep that whip crackin.' Gene...