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...read with dismay Thomas Watson's apology to the Catholic Students Association for offending them by showing ACt UP's Stop the Church video. When is the Catholic Students Association going to apologize for killing thousands, all in the name of a reactionary sexual politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Apology for `Stop the Church' | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

...radio show to endorse the protests. He also attends the demonstrations. "We want respect for American laws," says Hedgecock. "Mexicans are violating our laws." He and others demand immediate but unspecified congressional action. Judging by the phone calls Hedgecock receives, it would seem that many San Diegans share his dismay. Says Hedgecock: "I've had callers in the construction industry say, 'Gosh, I used to be a drywall hanger, and now there are no English-speaking drywall hangers in San Diego County. They all speak Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Diego, California Hatred, Fear and Vigilance | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...methods have earned her a working relationship with Gorbachev, but not with Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania's fiery President. While he represents the mystic Lithuanian dreams, she concentrates on practicalities. The two have disagreed strongly about how to deal with Moscow, and many emotional Lithuanians share with Landsbergis his dismay at her conciliatory moves. Prunskiene dismisses the criticism as irrelevant: "As a leader I do not have to follow what I believe is the wrong way just to show unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge In the East | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...partly educated there, whose vision of life has been transformed by the openness and dynamism of American society, and who cherishes the generosity of its political principles and respects the strength of its democratic creed, I can only witness the deterioration in American life with dismay and sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Some Well-Wishing Advice from Europe | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...dismay of scientists, no laboratory is even close to achieving such high energies. The recently-built Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago falls short by a factor of about 10,000 trillion, or 10 with 16 zeroes following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: String Theorists Hunt for the `Theory of Everything' | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

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