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...Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) launched election-eve offensives, each claiming that the tide of the four-year civil war was turning in its favor. Some 4,000 Salvadoran troops fanned out through the country's eastern departments, where the guerrillas are dominant, to harass the rebels and to protect the elections. For their part, the elusive guerrillas launched a countercampaign under such slogans as "No to the Electoral Farce; Yes to the People's War." Despite an F.M.L.N. promise to avoid disrupting the elections, roving guerrilla bands occupied remote towns and set up roadblocks along...
...years journalists have lost 83% of initial jury trials, and in 22 cases the damage award was more than $1 million. Even when awards are reversed on appeal, cases sometimes cost more than $1 million to defend. Indeed, journalists contend that many libel cases are filed in part to harass the press, and some publishers have urged adoption of Britain's system of making the loser in a suit pay the winner's legal fees...
...seems curious that many accept the common wisdom that the Cambridge police force is generally racist and that its officers often harass minorities indiscriminately, but dismiss suggestions that the Harvard police could share the same attitudes and prejudices. As a rule, HUPD attracts the same type of person that would join the Cambridge force; generally local Massachusetts residents of working class origins who may be angered by seeing middle and lower income Blacks receiving opportunities that their children never will...
...rude, accusatory and cynical. I have been accused of being unpatriotic, anti-Israeli, anti-Arab and anti-American. I meddle in politics, harass illegal businesses and cause other untold difficulties for governments. Some say I am arrogant and self-righteous. I am glad. That is what makes good reporters...
Above all, though, is Sinatra's urgent sincerity, which persuades the listener that for the moment at least, the singer and his song are one. In real life, Sinatra may bully hapless casino dealers and harass would-be biographers, but in concert with a chorus of moppets on High Hopes he seems a natural to lead next year's third-grade outing. And when Sinatra sings that definitive barroom lament, One for My Baby, even a teetotaler is tempted to light up a cigarette and order one more for the road. Now that is bel canto indeed...