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Some contend that the most effective way to control terrorism is to cure the social conditions that inspire today's nihilism-such as unemployment (especially among the young) and a distant, insensitive bureaucratic government. Italian Sociologist Giovanni Statera argues that the alternative of "trying to shore up state institutions by passing repressive antiterrorist laws is like trying to cure a cancerous tumor with hot-water packs." Still, it remains to be seen whether efforts to eradicate economic injustice in a democratic manner would solve the present problem; it is not, after all, the have-nots who are taking...
...marchers were remarkably well-behaved, keeping to the sidewalks and off the streets when marshals' asked them, and keeping their anger focused on a distant injustice, an economic system, and just a few top decision-makers...
...leaves behind--gulp--one of the smoothest, most enjoyable, and most professional Harvard shows this year, proving that great directors need not be distant, tyrannical or tempermental. If Havergal can't explain what a director should be, it may be because he embodies it. "He's got a lot of class," Aquino says. "He brings those good, British-style cookies to rehearsals--none of this pretzels and Coke shit...
...Vance, however, fell the responsibility for two more distant diplomatic problems that also are entering a critical stage...
...Gushing, to write gossip items, is about to launch a graphically dramatic Sunday photo magazine, and is even thinking about changing the paper's name back to the simpler Examiner. But the retooled daily has not yet made any major circulation gains, and it still runs a pathetically distant second in advertising to the Times, which controls 93% of the Los Angeles market's total, v. 1% for the Herald-Examiner. "When I joined this paper, it was puffing along at one mile per hour," concedes the almost inaudibly soft-spoken Bellows...