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...Shelton, the news of the indictments was small comfort. The unemployment rate in town is a high 14%, and nearly 300 of the people left jobless by the bombing are still out of work. It is likely that Sponge Rubber Products will fold altogether, bad news for the 600 people working at its three other plants still operating in the area. Says Lloyd Witmer, an aide to Shelton's mayor: "You hear comments like 'So they caught the people who did it, so now they'll bring them to trial. But what does that...
...problems Rifkin sees stemming from this power concentrated at the top are two-fold. At one level, as I.F. Stone once said, the rich march on Washington all the time. The importance of a smooth-running economy to a President and the power of the multinationals in world politics have been evident for years. The "corporate giants" are able to find more receptive ears in the White House and on Capitol Hill than the average working Joe, a massive contradiction of American ideals and purpose...
Radcliffe's lacrosse squad should petition to play two first halves or else think of some other way to avoid its habitual second-half fold. Tis sad but true that yet another excellent first half effort turned up naught in the end result, as a traditionally strong UNH team poured it on in the final stanza to walk away with...
...reasons for bringing Shockley here are three-fold," a YAF law student began. "We wanted to refute his statist views (on government intervention into private lives); we wanted to vindicate Yale's students after their performances last year, and to check Yale's commitment to free speech." But YAF president Eugenc Meyer explained this strange free speech test with a neat historical analogy: "The problem of Hitler was not that he spoke, but that he was allowed to shut people...
...talk to Jackie whether it will be a week or a year before they hear from her again." Senator Edward Kennedy did make the trip to Skorpiós to lend the widow some support, but it is unlikely that his gesture signals Jackie's return to the fold...