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...their problem. "Every society," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "rests on the death of men." Canadians fought bravely in Britain's wars (twice against us), but they have rarely fought one another. As a consequence, they may not feel the same stake in their society that Americans earned, at such grim cost...
Lauding the Kennedy School of Government's recently formed prochoice group, Kennedy School Students for Choice, Michelman warned that "the situation [today] may look grim. That's because it is, but we can make a difference...
...schedule now seems far too leisurely. Last week's grim news spurred new public warnings and calls for faster action. In Denmark an Environment Ministry spokesman went on television to urge fellow Danes not to panic -- but to use hats and sunscreen. German Environment Minister Klaus Topfer called on & other countries to match Germany's pledge to stop CFC production by 1995. Greenpeace activists in Britain met with Prime Minister John Major and implored him to halt the manufacture of all CFCs immediately...
Nancy Wexler was 22 when she got the grim news. Arriving home in Los Angeles after studying abroad on a Fulbright scholarship, she learned that her mother, then 53, had been found to have Huntington's disease. Wexler was devastated. The genetic disorder, which afflicts 30,000 Americans, had claimed the lives of her three uncles and her maternal grandfather, and she was only too well aware of what lay ahead for her mother: mental deterioration, uncontrollable movements in all parts of the body and, after a decade or so, death...
...maybe he was seduced by the film's bizarre violence, by the presence of Anthony "Hannibal the Cannibal" Hopkins, or by its grim worldview. In any case, Jagger's acting apparently hasn't improved, and he's not bound to win an Oscar. Maybe, just as in 1970, he's still doomed to be a (Jumpin' Jack) flash...