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Guerrillas rarely confront the army, but concentrate on dominating the country's 6.2 million black villagers. In sensitive areas, the government has herded blacks into "protected villages" in order to cut off food supplies to the guerrillas. International organizations estimate that there are now half a million villagers obliged to live behind barbed wire from dusk to dawn. The tragedy is that the army often cannot differentiate between gunman and civilian-hence the high death rate...
...situation was beginning to make sense. College officials huddled on the matter and decided they had to confront this Pete Brown/Joe Smith and find out what was going on. "We got everybody alerted--and started doing detective work," Jewett recalls...
...test one desperate day when, in the dining-room, he wheeled around a corner, tray in hand, only to confront The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe (this is what everyone calls her--her family name has long since been discarded). The shock of being within three feet of The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe was too much for my roommate, and his tray came clattering down, gracefully allowing the day's lunch to take up residence on his penny-loafers...
...into the spirit of the thing: as they downed their scrambled eggs and muffins, the demonstrators chanted "We want it hot" and pounded their knives and forks on the tables. After breakfast, the group marched to University Hall, where its representatives entered the building in a vain attempt to confront Dean Fox with their demands...
...poet must confront the Universe, cross it, and conquer it if he is to arrive at a metaphysical sense of self. No philosopher had a more playfully metaphysical sense of self than that most exoteric of existentialists, that master mirthful mentation--just in from the Danish Coast, here he is now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Soren "The Psycho" Kierkegaard. You may all stop reading now. I only introduced Kierkegaard as a further inducement for you to stop reading, primarily because I can't understand why any of you would be interested in Humor Theory, the most tedious of philosophical endeavors...