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...Rait is on a road to nowhere, and he's none too happy about it. Jouncing along in a Jeep Cherokee through the Southwest wilderness, he points with disgust at the freshly dug track he's following. It meanders into a streambed, emerges from the other side and then stops abruptly. In just one afternoon Rait, an environmentalist with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, will find several more such dead-end trails, ranging from a mere quarter mile to a few miles long. Not one of them goes anywhere at all. "They're cutting roads all over the place...
Hearing the verdict in the civil trial earlier this week, our thoughts inevitably returned to the criminal trial, and we were driven to reflect on the O.J. saga in its entirety. For myself, I can't help wondering why America was split asunder rather than united in disgust when this man murdered two innocent human beings. At least we may be grateful that the whole sad business of the O.J. Simpson case is over: Reqiescat in pace...
SEOUL: Knowing how quickly public disgust can wither a strike, protesting unions are sending their charges back to work--for free. As part of a "Day of solidarity with the people" arranged by the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, striking auto mechanics provided free tuneups in 12 South Korean cities, and some nurses and hospital workers set up tents offering free blood-pressure checks and services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed...
Manning, who is directing the Shakur murder probe, reacted with disgust. "That, to me, tells the whole story," he says. "Essentially, it's a suspended investigation. We have some suspects, but without a witness saying they were there, we can't do anything." Though Shakur was shot in front of Knight and a carful of retainers, only one, backup musician Yafeu Fula, indicated to police that he saw anything. Unfortunately, Fula was shot and killed in an apparently unrelated drug altercation before he could be interviewed...
...fact, if our fellow citizens chose, they can do what they did when many of them disapproved of interracial and interfaith marriages. They can sit at home, loudly condemn us, pray for us and express their disgust. But let us be very clear, their beliefs and disapproval are not grounds to commit a grave injustice to millions of their fellow citizens. Gay and lesbian Americans should be accorded the same rights as other Americans...no more, but certainly no less...