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...disappeared from political life. He virtually grabs his listeners by the hand and drags them over deep crevices of logic and fact to new understanding. These leaps of faith can be breathtaking and at times demagogic. In Hartford last week, Jackson looked up at the shimmering glass of the downtown office towers and intoned, "There is something wrong with this nation when here in this state, the insurance capital of the world, there are 300,000 people without health insurance...
McInerney found a singular voice in which to recount the drugged out misadventures of a young man named Jamie as he wanders through the downtown Manhattan club scene at its early-'80s height. His book was written entirely in the second person and mostly in the present tense. But there are no equivalents to these devices in the grammar of film. As a result, his screenplay lacks the bite of his original fiction...
Proceedings in downtown Boston were halted yesterday after an NLRB examiner sent Harvard lawyers back to Cambridge to clarify their position on the 65 workers. A ruling is expected today on whether these employees will be eligible to vote on a referendum which would give them, and roughly 4000 others, union representation...
...outbreak in Poland was mounted by students at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow marking the anniversary of a wave of antigovernment protest that swept the country in 1968. In both cities, several thousand people gathered downtown and demanded official recognition of the Independent Students' Union, banned when martial law was imposed in 1981. The Warsaw crowd was charged by hundreds of ZOMO riot police, who used three-foot truncheons to club demonstrators. In Cracow, several dozen students were reported injured, and more than 100 were detained...
...scene was a bizarre blend of whimsy, fashion and rage. As antigovernment protesters gathered on the Via Espana in downtown Panama City last week, some of the women sported designer sunglasses and diamond-stud earrings to go with their smart dresses and slacks. Clapping in rhythm, the middle-class crowd jeered, "Down with Noriega! Get out, and let us eat!" When passing motorists blared their horns in approval, riot police poured from trucks bearing the painted image of Doberman attack dogs. Then from the side of the road rolled a truck hauling two water cannons inexplicably emblazoned with powder-blue...