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...have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered for his play along the Wall, was scheduled to come down...
...love the crush of humanity when "Track Eight" is finally announced and reams of people flock to the gate as if to greet the Messiah. Most of all, I love toying with people's emotions by acting unsure about whether I am actually saving the seat next...
Considering how generally disputatious the campaign has been, it isn't surprising that crowds will flock to the voting booths tomorrow. What is surprising is that a large group of these voters may not be able come to a decision until they pull the voting booth curtain closed behind them...
...stories have surfaced in such usually well-informed journals as Moscow News and Literaturnaya Gazeta. The first flock of rumors suggested that a pro- democracy, antigovernment rally in Moscow would serve as the pretext for the coup. The rally came and went with little incident. The rumors bubbled on -- even though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow...
Washington is a city of midlife compromises. Bright-eyed young men and women flock to the capital, as they have since the New Deal, not because they want to make money but because they want to act on their political beliefs. They enter government; they master a specialty; they amass a Rolodex. Then maybe their party loses power or they find themselves lusting after a BMW on a bureaucrat's salary. Suddenly the former idealists are in the private sector, bartering what they learned in government in their new roles as lawyers, lobbyists, public relations consultants...