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Allen Ginsberg. Timothy Leary. The Grateful Dead. These men were the links in the daisy chain of 1960s counterculture, the original hippies. Like Marx stewing away in the British Library, they were the vanguard of a movement of radical thought...
...alleged assailants claims he was roughed up when the D.U. members threw him out. Probably so, since he was drunk and had 30 guys in his face. His claim--completely wacky--is that some kind of chain letter version of the talionic law holds on Saturday night: If you get hurt, you get to hurt someone else, and so on, and so on. Private parties, public vices...
...teach his lessons. The professor, 30, confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked" that the professor had helped in the escape. At week's end Petrik was behind bars, facing a seven-year prison term with no sabbaticals, and one of the jailbirds had been caught. Give the prof...
...close associate who prefers anonymity to Perot's wrath. "He does not compromise well. Ross has two modes: your way and my way -- and we're going to do it my way." The problem is not that Perot refuses to listen; he in fact delights in bypassing the chain of command to call some subordinate himself with a question. But once Perot makes a decision, that's it -- no dissent -- either go out and do it or get off the team...
Such self-confidence. She is today the best known of the New Palestinians, the most prominent woman in the Arab world, and she is very comfortable with that. This is not a lady you can shake. Only the way she chain-smokes Salem Lights betrays the pressure she is under...