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...committing or instigating violent acts; sometimes it is difficult to tell them apart. Indeed, the political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides of the shotgun and crossbow, the death toll climbs...
...extinguished. In any case, ever since the members of the post-punk rock band Nirvana became the surprise darlings of MTV and pop radio, they've gone through a media barrage that seemed the very opposite of nirvana. Now their powerful new album takes all the band's media-glare anguish and alchemizes it into noisy, brainy rock 'n' roll. "Teenage angst has paid off well/ Now I'm bored and old," Kurt Cobain sings on the opening song, Serve the Servants. "Self-appointed judges judge/ More than they have sold...
...fireworks display and causing many startled spectators instinctively to shield their face. Interspersed with occasional fireballs, the meteors reached an incredible peak rate of at least 40 per sec. before the bombardment began to wane. Some shooting stars continued to fall until their trails were obscured by the glare of the rising...
...Exeter's Black students, privy to an insider's knowledge of the goings-on of the campus, are concerned about the atmosphere, the glare of the national spotlight has done little to enhance Harvard's image...
...will a ninth-grade dropout who plainly relishes the glare of world publicity relinquish it all to lead his followers into prison? "Koresh is blowing smoke," says Wayman Mullins, a criminal-justice professor and hostage-negotiations trainer at Southwest Texas State University. "It's notoriety and grandstanding...