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...Father Joe Mulligan brought a letter of support from Nicaragua signed by four former Sandinista cabinet members, there was a flavor of the past, but this was not your father's protest movement. Both sides boasted bloggers and internet radio show hosts, caterers, shuttle buses, tee shirt and bumper sticker production on a major scale, instant music CDs-patriotic or folk-and the hit of the day, saddammagnets.com, a set of refrigerator magnets featuring Saddam Hussein in his underwear...
...that night?s game, and I got a good night?s sleep before taking a jog at dawn through the old neighborhoods-West Chelmsford, where I?d played Wiffle ball, back towards the center of town, where I?d played sandlot and then Little League. So many Red Son bumper stickers on the cars in the driveways these days, so many Sox pennants and flags hanging on the porches...
These very early strips in Walt and Skeezix set the charming, humane tone of the series to come. Much of the humor derives from Walt's application of car mechanics to the raising of a baby. In one amusing strip, he tricks out the baby carriage with, "a bumper, windshield wings, spotlight that reels out?an awning and a set of snubbers to take the rebound out the springs." The scenes with Walt and Skeezix together are filled with genuine warmth that seems almost totally absent from many of today's family entertainments. King would even occasionally sacrifice...
...essence of the terrorist's penumbra of fear is that no one can be safe from his danse macabre. In that sense, 1985 was the terrorist's bumper year. In West Germany, bombs that exploded in and around U.S. military installations killed three and injured 50. Investigators strongly suspected that a terrorist bomb had destroyed an Air India Boeing 747 carrying 329 passengers and crew across the Atlantic in June. In the same month, leftist guerrillas opened fire on four crowded San Salvador cafés, slaying 13 people, including six Americans...
...Editors: The fall in oil prices [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, April 14] is of great interest to those of us in the Northeast. Remember the bumper stickers saying LET THE BASTARDS FREEZE IN THE DARK? While I sympathize with the unemployed in Texas, I find it difficult to feel sorry for the rich oil barons. Peter J. Scarafile Fairport...