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...much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else...
...highly bastardized form, they have been revived by Finance Minister Leopold Lér. But Lér's plan in no way envisions the kind of widespread shop-floor democracy that had been the dream of Dubček's Finance Minister, Ota Šik...
...IK AT nat is more, says U'Ren, "West Point does everything in its power to develop a sense of cohesiveness among the cadets. They strive to develop a sense of loyalty and belonging-community...
...Skuru Ik, down 3-1 at the end of the first period, had hopes for a comeback, but the Crimson crushed them, scoring four times in the second to the Swedes...
...Skuru Ik's cleanest goal of the night came when Kennet Sundberg got his second on a breakaway, blasting a waisthigh shot past Jim Murray from ten feet...