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...think she's a victim of overexposure," says Freddy DeMann. Freddy manages Madonna, not Cyndi, and frets - is, in fact, "absolutely worried" - that all the p.r. heat might burn out his client. Now, then. While the ladies play tag with the limelight, a few thoughts occur...
...when Harvard divests or when every university, city town and corporation in the world divests from South Africa. The victory is only won when apartheid has been crushed. And divestiture, by itself, will never bring an end to a system so firmly entrenched as apartheid. Only internal revolution can burn apartheid to the ground, and economic pressure is just one way of striking the match...
Some important safety systems were not working at the time of the accident. Refrigeration units designed to keep the highly reactive MIC cool so that it could not vaporize had been shut down before the accident. Other equipment, including devices designed to vent and burn off excess gases, was so inadequate, investigators hinted, that it would have been ineffective even if it had been operating at the time of the accident...
...devoted himself, in Marius' phrase, to building "a wall of pages" to defend his faith in works like A Dialogue Concerning Heresies. He loathed the emerging Luther so profoundly that his theological arguments collapsed into scatological abuse. When his treatises failed to halt the Reformation, More took to burning the treatises of his enemies, and when book burning failed, he turned to body burning, exulting in the fires at the stake that carried Protestant heretics to hell "where the wretches burn forever...
...plant forever. It's something we've grown to accept. We have been so used to hearing the sirens at the plant that they have sort of lulled us to sleep. A lot of times things get out in the air around here, and our eyes burn and our throats get scratchy. But we never thought they were making anything so deadly as that stuff...