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...that gets published at the college," the article reads, "there has been almost on discussion of this work in pages of student publications and very little informal discussion outside the narrow circles of workshop students and magazine staffs." Let Dartboard translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point, it all depends on whether...
...implosion of civil authority in Somalia has created a black hole that sucks in help from the outside and crushes it before it can do much good. Convoy drivers hijack their own cargoes. Relief workers, many of them volunteers and all of them unarmed, have been subjected to death threats, shakedowns, looting and kidnapping. "To send workers out there without defending them is immoral, pure and simple," said Frederick Cuny, an American disaster-management consultant...
...giant McDonnell Douglas facility to the new airport. Blocked by a committee chairman, Perot's top lieutenant, Tom Luce, tried to induce the committee vice chairman to act in the chairman's absence. Luce failed, but the committee chairman, Steven Wolens, howls, "They came in and tried to hijack our committee without regard to protocol or the Texas constitution...
...discovery of the CIA's dealings with B.C.C.I. raises a deeply disturbing question: Did the agency hijack the foreign policy of the U.S. and in the process involve itself in one of the most audacious criminal enterprises in history? Items...
...also shares characteristics with The Godfather's Michael Corleone. Both are intelligent young men whose high ideals are tarnished by a brutal world. In fact, it is idealists who cause most of the trouble. When a group of Arab terrorists known as the One Hundred kill the Pope, hijack a jet carrying the U.S. President's daughter and then murder her to demonstrate that they mean business, F.X.K. responds with force. He destroys a gleaming new city in the Middle Eastern country that harbored the hijackers...