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There they join people excluded from everything -- the unemployed, the homeless, those who live in dirty, crowded neighborhoods devoid of any city planning, mothers and fathers who cannot find anyone to take care of their children while they still have to work. These people become desperate. They come from the left, but they vote for the National Front...
Across Canada and the northern U.S., it has long been known, entire tracts of wilderness are dotted with lakes and streams that are essentially devoid of aquatic life. Most scientists believe the havoc is caused by airborne pollutants that are chemically transformed in the atmosphere and fall to earth in unusually acidic precipitation. Called acid rain, the phenomenon now stands accused of laying waste marine life along the Atlantic Coast as well. In a report issued last week, the Manhattan-based Environmental Defense Fund charges that nitrogen oxides spewed from U.S. power plants, factories and automobiles have played a major...
...Warren focuses on the worth-while and so-called apolitical nature of the senior class gift. However, while the class gift may not appear to have anything to do with South Africa, it is not devoid of ethical and political implications. The commendable purpose of the class gift does not diminish the need to take a stand against injustice in South Africa...
Chabon is one in a long line of young novelists to examine the strange bric-a-brac of our day. Unlike Jay McInerney--whose debut novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was a dirge devoid of rebirth, and set in the heart of the New World jungle, New York City--Chabon retains a Midwestern sensibility and even-mindedness. Chabon's prose can be as funny as McInerney's, but its message is more cheerful...
...They neglect to mention the terrorist means often employed in this war and the tyrannical regimes that rule over most of the Arab League. Instead, they focus on anything negative about Israel, using "witty" little phrases such as "Don't Say You Didn't Know" and displaying lurid photographs devoid of all context. Why are there no SAS posters dealing with the positive aspects of Palestinian autonomy, rather than negative rhetoric against Israel? In the absence of such "positives" one wonders if the SAS is concerned with Palestinian rights or the destruction of the Jewish State. Adam A. Sabra, president...