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Getting drowned out by music and noise of the many occupational hazards that street performers endure. They must contend with bored audiences, policemen checking permits, weather turning foul, malfunctioning amplifiers and popping strings...
...compatible groups, Harvard's careful placement system is far from flawless. In fact, graduates of the Yard have also speculated that Freshman Dean's Office uses such criteria as first names, bicep measurements and predisposition to caffeine addiction in determining rooming groups. Officials, however, contend that such random attributes usually aren't given consideration, even though coincidental similarities might surface...
...Israelis staged an angry protest march in downtown Tel Aviv. Some carried signs urging Peres not to free the detainees under any circumstances. Jerusalem is also enmeshed in a controversy over the legality under which the Shi'ite detainees were brought to Israel. Many nations, including the U.S., contend that Israel violated Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits "forcible transfers . . . from occupied territory" of civilian prisoners. Israeli officials retort that the same article allows for the transfer of civilians outside occupied zones if "for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement." Whether...
...Southern Baptists agree that the Bible is the only basis for faith, but the two camps differ over how literally the Scriptures should be interpreted. In the Broadman series, for example, sections contributed by President Roy Honeycutt of the S.B.C. seminary in Louisville contend that substantial portions of Exodus were written centuries after Moses, that Moses probably had an "inner experience" of God instead of seeing an actual burning bush, and that the Bible stories of the plagues of Pharaoh or the Prophet Elisha's miracles may well have been reshaped or exaggerated in transmission. That...
...acts in South Africa from bases in Botswana. He said the organization was planning an assassination campaign against government officials and black and mixed-race moderates. The South African raid resembled a 1982 attack on ANC bases in Lesotho and later operations against guerrillas in Mozambique. South African officials contend that the guerrillas regrouped in Botswana and Angola after being driven from Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha said that South Africa had warned Botswana repeatedly about harboring terrorists. "We will not allow ourselves to be attacked with impunity," he declared...