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...around, knocked the gunman down, grabbed his pistol, put it to the prone man's head and pulled the trigger several times. The gun would not fire. "I wasn't going to stand there and let him kill me without doing anything," Davis explained. In another New York subway clash, Andrew Frederick, 25, saw two men trying to steal candy from an underground newsstand and intervened. When they turned on him, he pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed one of them, Felix McCord, 28, to death. After deliberating last week, a grand jury in Manhattan decided not to indict Frederick...
...Cape Town for talks with South African officials, declared that "the cycle of violence must come to an end now." But President Reagan, speaking at his news conference on the day of the killings, suggested that "rioting" marchers were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some of those enforcing the law and using the guns were also black." He added that his Administration had no thoughts of amending its policy of "constructive engagement," under which it uses diplomatic pressure rather than outright ostracism to nudge South Africa toward reform. Professing themselves "outraged and disgusted...
Sophomore Keith Webster--who hit 14 of 14 free throws in last Saturday's Cornell clash--has a streak of 16 successful charity stripe attempts going...
...current debate raging over the Harvard undergraduate housing lottery system, those advocating one position have failed, for the most part, to address the central theses of those expressing opposing viewpoints. I believe the heart of the debate revolves around the clash of different conceptions of the goal of the housing system--its telos, if you will. Is it supposed to maximize overall student happiness, to produce a socially desirable end conducive to a liberal education, or to be in itself a fair process by which housing assignments are distributed? Without direct and unequivocal discussion of this issue, the forthcoming results...
Ginsberg: I like to sing with the Clash, I was on their last album. I've also made some movies with Bob Dylan. I'm supposed to be doing some work with "X" sooner or later. I like the Dead Kennedys and Sting. I ran into Sting at a birthday party for [William] Burroughs last year. Burroughs has had an enormous effect on new wave pop music. There are a lot of bands that use his terms like "soft machine." He's talking on a Laurie Anderson record now. I think that is natural because the poetry runs back...