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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always try my best to treat people well and help people whenever I can. As for my troubles, I usually get treated badly I'm the guy who people count on to help them through hard times. But when they are doing well, they don't even know I exist. When I'm really low I tend to think that I Leo Durocher's baseball expression. Nice guys finish last also apple to social relations But I have not become that cynical on life yet. I'm still confident that things will turn just waiting for all that good...

Author: By Maurice DEG. Ford, | Title: Harvard as Wasteland | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

...country engage in a largely symbolic move that will re-emphasize a well-known fact and, in the process, antagonize Israel's Arab neighbors? It is time for the U.S. to become more sensitive to the reactions of the Arab world and to realize that Israel does not exist in a vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Ironically, the monument does not stand at the site of his burial (which was somewhere on "Burial Hill"), the site of his house is uncertain, since it was burned during the Battle of Bunker Hill, and only two copies of his signature exist. No portrait of him has ever come to light, and it is unlikely his father being an illiterate butcher, that a family portrait was ever done...

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: 100 Dears of Solitude | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

This reasoning couldn't be more specious. When two men are pointing guns at each other, they are hardly likely to consider it defensive when one of them starts edging behind a pillar. The benefits that a "star wars" defense could bring exist only if the system is already in place and works...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Space Cadet | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest, repentance, crime do not exist. I obey my own law." Finally, Cenci's angry wife and angrier daughter have him killed. All the preceeding facts are the parts of the play that are conclusively true. Everything else that the audience sees--embarrassingly florid and melodramatic orations, weird communions with the gods of darkness, shrieks, screams and flashing...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Delightfully Absurd | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

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