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...shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
Hungry students across campus have a lot more to worry about these days than the resumed grind of second-semester classes. For those succumbing to the call of the late-night stomach rumblings, poultry products are no longer an option--at least for the time being...
Today I was told that during smoke breaks they're getting the feeling that they will not manage to grind up the leadership of the party, and will have to change something. We have very many people who take advantage of their position. Nothing is exploited as much as official position...
...shock to come: that some of the profits of the arms-for-hostages deal may have ended up financing pro-contra political advertisements and perhaps even the campaigns of pro-contra congressional candidates. That charge is being made publicly by Democrats who have little evidence and obvious axes to grind, but it is a suspicion that is being voiced within the Executive Branch as well. According to one Government source, the Iranian arms profits were diverted into a political slush fund. According to another source close to the FBI, the bureau is "looking into the possibility of a connection" between...
Federman, who was not an expert on the issue, was chosen in part because "he had no ax to grind," Hayes said, adding that he does not receive research grants from the five foundations which sponsored the study...