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...advocacy of compromise on SDI has exposed him once again to fire from right-wing Senators and to blasts from the conservative press. The attacks are eerily reminiscent of the ones against him in the early '50s and '60s, and they have been painful to the proud old hawk. "It's no fun and damned unfair being depicted as a giveaway artist," he confided to a colleague recently...
...Government may not hawk goods like a job-lot auction house, but it is becoming quite a bargain hunter. Across the U.S., law-enforcement officials are enthusiastically confiscating property acquired through criminal activity or used in committing crimes. Such seizures have become a major police weapon for squeezing crooks, especially drug dealers. During fiscal 1986, federal marshals handled $550 million in confiscated cash and property under 130 laws, a fivefold increase since...
Besides the strong showing by Kelly, Hawk Karen Ringland chipped in with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Last year's leading scorer for Hartford, Ringland proved a major challenge to Harvard's improved inside game...
Jolley's success owes something to publishers willing to hawk her books outside Australia. But her own distinctive talent deserves most of the credit. After leaving her native England with her librarian husband and three children and settling in Australia in 1959, she took up a variety of jobs, including nursing, door-to-door sales, occasional stints of domestic service and eventually writing. Along the way, she seems to have developed a sense of what loneliness and isolation can do, even to the most simple, hardworking folk. Such people, earnest and a little unhinged, began popping up in her fiction...
...scream is one of the indigenous sounds of city life, like an automobile alarm that whoops and heaves, then stops, leaving the question hanging like a hawk as to whether a car was broken into, or did its owner set off the alarm by accident, and then lay it to rest. With human screams, the question is more complicated, since screams are not mechanical or automatic. Did you hear that, Harry? What could it be? A scream of delight, of fright? Hilarity, Harry? Do you think that someone is laughing too hard? Could it be hysteria, madness...