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...arrival was less than auspicious. A freak autumn fog blanketed Moscow's four airports; Shultz, Carlucci and their 110-member traveling party were forced to make the 700-mile journey from Helsinki to the Soviet capital on an overnight train. When they arrived, they knew that even without the unexpected hitch on Star Wars, sticky details on the INF pact still had to be resolved...
Less than a minute later, the Crimson's lead was increased to two on a freak play that had the 600 partisan fans gasping in disbelief and agony. With no Harvard attackers near, freshman Columbia defender Sigurdur Valtysson tried to head an easy ball back to Michelli...
Nearly every investor develops a personal method or specialty. Investor Tedd Determan of Chicago, who puts most of his $1.4 million portfolio into small, fast-growing stocks, often invests in companies whose products he appreciates as a consumer. A confessed "popcorn freak," he savored the brand made by Golden Valley Microwave Foods, and so he bought the company's stock. It has gone up nearly 70% in value during the past year. In another instance, Determan was so impressed with the service at Jiffy Lube International, a franchised auto-service chain, that he bought 3,000 shares...
Race relations are necessarily going to be effected by this verdict, because not only is a gnawing fear of "tough" Blacks now an acceptable code to govern walking the streets, so is fear of scrawny, bespectacled engineer types, who look like they may freak out and shoot you. What is to be gained by having everyone's fear become a legitimate basis for subway shootings? True, race enters the Goetz case only because society is racist, but there should be some point where racism can not be a justification for action; that place is the courtroom...
...what if the adolescent is a sullen, inarticulate psychotic? And what if he commits murder, not mischief? And what if his crowd, which contains no Molly Ringwalds or Matthew Brodericks and is led by a perpetually jumped-up speed freak (daringly played by Crispin Glover), still attempts to protect him from the law's vengeance...