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...first of an expected 500 U.S. volunteers began arriving last week to help harvest the coffee crop, while other U.S. volunteers began rotating two-week vigils in hot spots along the Honduran border. They hope to act as a "human shield" to discourage contra attacks. "We don't want to minimize the risk," says Jim Wallis, a religious organizer from Washington who is now in Nicaragua. "But we believe it's time for U.S. citizens to share that risk...
Morrow describes the effect of the media's treatment of Kennedy's memory: today's crop of White's "men of words and phrases" don't necessarily create a Kennedy myth, but rather deal with one already formed in the popular psyche. In fact, the media itself examines Kennedy's aesthetics--his image--as much as it does his record. And the media's treatment of Kennedy's image seems at once both nostalgic and religious...
Crimson Captain Ken Code insists the situation at the front line isn't as bad as it might look. "There's no denying that we lost a lot of our best players," Code says, "but we have a very good crop of forwards who came back. We have eight senior forwards...
...genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such as covergirl Carol Alt, who was even younger than Stratten when she began making astute financial and professional decisions) are taking charge of their careers in such a realistic manner. And there is a growing, and increasingly visible, crop of female sex symbols (among them Barbara Carrera, Victoria Principal and Raquel Welch) whose firm grips on their own careers make someone as passive as Dorothy look like a relic of a previous century. The achievements of such women do not contribute anything to the major philosophic or epistemological issues...
...truth, of course, is different. Third world nations have long been sources of cheap labor and raw materials for the Western economics. Many countries--forced at economics and military gunpoint to become export-crop farms--are the places where hunger is most pernicious...