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Speak? Well, not exactly. His people howl and mumble, wisecrack and menace, muse and abuse--a lot of the time obscenely. But never idly. The language of Clockers is finally transformative, turning what might have been no more than a slice of mean-streets realism into a sort of rap opera, in which pained recitative prepares the way for anguished (and curiously moving) arias...
Which creased face of age, which inconsolable howl from a child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced evidence of a terrible death that may have befallen 5,000 or more army-age Muslim men in Srebrenica, an eastern Bosnian town conquered by Serbs last month, the U.N. began to document deeds that were perhaps just as appalling, albeit much less extensive, against some Serbs uprooted by Croatian...
...about 50 cases have been reported since the Middle Ages. Men with the gene have in the past been displayed as "dog men" or "human werewolves." Scientists hope that the discovery will lead to new ways of treating baldness. No telling whether it may lead to an urge to howl at the moon...
Armed with nine different pens, including gold and silver in addition to basic black, the poet autographed his latest book Journals: Mid-Fifties 1954-1958, as well as earlier collections, posters, admirers' poetry notebooks and even a Bridgewater College student's paper on Ginsberg's famous poem "Howl...
...least, is to re-empower voters and revitalize democracy through more direct popular representation. Pitfalls do abound. The same technology able to identify and link citizens and political institutions will also necessarily facilitate nationwide identification systems and increased governmental surveillance. This will undoubtedly prompt a second neo-Orwellian howl to accompany an elitist shudder over entrusting the people -- the booboisie as a 21st century cybermob. But overall, the favorable balance that should result is compelling...