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...curious mix of triumph and dirge marked the demonstration, but there was good reason for the paradox. Bearing a black banner and badges proclaiming PLUS JAMAIS CA (Never Again), some 125,000 students, parents and union members marched through the boulevards of Paris last week in memory of Malik Oussekine, a 22-year-old student who had been killed several days earlier in a violent clash with police. Though the overall tone of the procession was somber and defiant, at one point a celebratory cry rang out: "We have...
...pool, of course, can replace the real thing on the West Coast. As the Beach Boys sang in their 1963 hit Surfin' U.S.A., "If everybody had an ocean/ Across the U.S.A./ Then everybody'd be surfin'/ Like Ca-li-for-ni-a." Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, 44, whose group celebrates its silver anniversary this year, bought a house near California's Rincon Beach, partly to be near one of his favorite spots. "Surfing is probably my only feeling of freedom," says Johnston. "My mortgage payments are not in the water with me." John Milius, 42, co-writer of Apocalypse...
...capable of giving a thoroughly reasoned admonition against the dangers of huge budget deficits, as he did last week in Iowa. But no matter what his topic, his speech is laced with religious allusions; he has a preacher's habit of stretching out words (free-dom, A-mer-i-ca) for emphasis. Though he smiles brightly and often, even when the smile is out of sync with the tone of his words, he taps what he describes as "a rage and frustration building up in - certain quarters of this country." As with Jackson, there is still an angry edge...
Colfax who lives on a ranch in Boonville, Ca. with his family, says that for the past five years he has only studied what he wanted to, concentrating on astronomy and biology. His astronomical studies took the form of a building a telescope and observatory while his biological studies were manifested in his hobby of breeding sheep...
...four children attended college in Massachusetts. "The reason Barco has trouble speaking in public," one campaign quip went, "is that he thinks in English." For now, Barco is thinking cautiously. "I received a great backing in the elections," he says, "but at the same time, a great responsibility." The ca awkward orator knows full well that the time has come for action...