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...charge that we confound private issues with "larger societal issues," we would again explain that our group espouses no political argument either in its outreaches or in its calls. We do not tell people they should feel "oppressed," "used," or even "upset...
...violence. On Saturday, Marines killed eight Haitian men in a firefight outside a police station in Cap Haitien. The U.S. soldiers, who numbered 12,000 at week's end, also disabled many of the heavy weapons of the Haitian army. But army commander Lieut. General Raoul Cedras continued to confound diplomats with his insistence that he would not leave Haiti even after Aristide's return...
...None was more gallant than hulking Joe Dawson, the captain of G Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, who was the first officer to bring his shattered unit to the ridge above Omaha. Dawson used his native sense and energy to bring order and purpose out of chaos and confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles of men who came out of the sea and moved inexorably up the small trails to defy Hitler's belief that they were too soft and self- indulgent to defeat his supermen...
Most devotees of angels don't pretend to have found a way to confound Providence and repel disaster. They do, however, suggest that the very idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the neighborhoods that were ravaged by riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls...
...Reiner's favorite comic techniques is to manipulate music and sound to confound the auditory expectations audiences have been virtually conditioned to experience in suspense movies...