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Mark Twain is reputed to have said that history does not repeat itself; it rhymes. There will never be another Holocaust. The exact permutations of history that created it are lost forever, and in this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...
Whatever Toan's exact message may have been, Martin's was surely even more harrowing. The communists had repeatedly declared they would never deal with Thieu. If there was to be any hope of a compromise peace, Thieu had to go, and Martin said as much. On his return to the embassy, Martin told an associate, he took a long shower and, with Pontius Pilate symbolism, scrubbed with strong soap...
...Punctuality: Together people are on time. They get the exact seats they want for lectures. They never run after the shuttle bus unless it's leaving early. They get to section before seven minutes after the hour. They arrive early for lunch dates with friends and even manage to snag tables in crowded dining halls. They finish and hand in things on time, such as, oh, theses. Extensions are more trouble than they're worth to these people...
...Although exact numbers were not availableyesterday, Lewis said she thinks the share ofstudents admitted from public, private andparochial schools is similar to last year's,"roughly two-thirds from public schools, and 30percent from parochial or private schools...
...when the owners were willing to pay the players lots of money. Baseball attendance has increased throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the game, at least in raw, unsentimental, cash-generated terms, was more popular than ever the day before this current strike. (August 18, 1994, to be exact...