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...general feeling from BC is that...we understand we’re part of a community but we shouldn’t be singled out. As long as it doesn’t become Big Brother-ish and our privacy rights aren’t taken advantage of I think everyone would admit it’s a good [program...
...APOLOGIZED. TONY BLAIR, Brit-ish Prime Minister, to 11 people wrongly convicted and jailed for IRA bombings that occurred in 1974; in a televised statement from his office at the House of Commons; in London. Known as the "Guildford Four" and the "Maguire Seven," the 11 men and women spent up to 17 years in prison before the final group was exonerated...
...horns bleating. The band had migrated to the Pit and begun to play an uneven version of “Dirty Water.” People climbed on top of the T stop, on top of garbage cans and on top of the information booth. I heard one thirty-ish man say to his friend, “Oh, to be in college again.” After a while, Cambridge policemen in comical riot gear—round helmets, vests, nightsticks—shined their flashlights up at the people standing on the information booth and told them...
...aspiration is good and social mobility is even better - all Australians climbing the ladder of opportunity," he told Labor's national conference in January. "I believe in the powerful combination of hard work, good family and the civilizing role of government services." There's merely a hint of left-ish idealism, smothered by the Labor right's reality checking...
...STUNNED TO SEE THE TERM "POL-ish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II [including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned]. We need to preserve the truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland...