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...Jiang Zemin, will be under threat indefinitely, but the electoral victory should provide Lee with a solid political base. The next milestone will be his inaugural speech in May, when he may propose new talks with Beijing, and most experts believe the offer will be accepted. The Chinese may detest Lee, but he is the popular leader of a land that is prosperous, stable and free, and they will have to deal with him for years to come...
...installed, Mr. Jewett's neighborhood will prove to be a fractured farce, a false construction imposed on a University that otherwise grants its students a great deal of freedom. The residents of this community thoroughly detest the new arrangement, in part because they realize the impossibility of the desired outcome. By randomizing the houses in such a hostile environment, Dean Jewett has dismissed undergraduate protest as immature self-interest. Randomization, the Great Leap Forward for the social engineers here, should be revoked...
Haven't most of the citizens of this country heard preachers, radio talk-show hosts and politicians successfully use hate as their principal theme? And who or what is it that they want us to detest? Environmentalists, feminists, homosexuals, criminals, aliens (legal and illegal), communists (though not many are left), liberals, other religions, people of color, government, atheists, welfare mothers, educators, vegetarians -- the list goes on and on. Many of us fit into these categories. How do we stop these vicious random acts of violence? It's simple -- we stop the hate...
...that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching Staten Island just as the sun was breaking through the clouds...
...reason he has become a rising favorite among nationalists and the military. In a recent survey, some 70% of officers said they would prefer Lebed as Defense Minister instead of Pavel Grachev, who has botched the Chechen war and faces accusations of corruption. Lebed also appeals to centrists who detest both Yeltsin and ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. If he could count on the support of all these groups, Lebed would make a very strong candidate in the presidential election scheduled for June...