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...going its own way. Since the first week in January, the Dow Jones has fallen almost steadily, from 1286.64 to a low point of 1086.57 on July 24. At each sign of a strong economy, the market seemed to drop defiantly. Economists study a myriad of obscure numbers to discern the state of the economy, but millions of Americans just look to the stock market-and what they saw did not jibe with the Administration's cheerleading. If the economy was so healthy, what was wrong with Wall Street...
...character. Still, I felt an obligation to write this letter in defense of an organization which I continue, along with countless other undergraduates and alumni, to be proud of. Maybe if these other organizations could step down from their soap boxes long enough, they would be able to discern reality from an unwarranted crusade. Thank you. Michael Travaglini...
...head and feet. The much ballyhooed computer graphics, however, added little to a viewer's understanding. At the opening ceremonies, for example, ABC hurtled graphics maps across the screen to pinpoint where lesser-known countries are situated, but the globes were so minute that it was hard to discern even continents. Some of the prepackaged features, put together in the name of world brotherhood, were embarrassing: John Denver crooned a mawkish ballad at a mass grave for 11,000 victims of the Nazis; and McKay, Frank Gifford and Bob Beattie mugged their way through a mock-boozy time...
...less angry than disheartened, less vengeful than perplexed. Never in my life has even a subtle gesture of anti-Semitism been waged against me. Were the offense flagrant, then my response would be clear. But I can not discern the implications if I can hardly presume the intent. A janitor may have removed it for noncompliance with housing codes, unaware of its significance. Yet, I reject this as unlikely; it was legally hung on poster clay which remains in place, and few janitors would so boldly invade a private doorway. Nor was it a likely candidate for unft...
...FRENCH REVOLUTION is a subject whose innumerable contradictory messages ultimately overwhelm one another. Like the chemical elements in the hands of a skilled chemist, events of the years 1789-1801 can be combined in different ways to create wholly distinct products. A modern day radical could discern in the fall of Maximillien Robespierre the lesson that only unwavering idealism and relentless persecution of reaction can sustain a revolution; a moderate could claim that only the tempering of justice with mercy can save a regime from overthrow...