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Instead of the marshes and rivers of Jefferson's day separating Washingtonians from their constituents we now have a six-lane macadamized beltway. And there are plenty of goings-on within that circle to keep politicians occupied. Granted Reagan's foreign policy apparatus deserves a lot of attention in the upcoming election, but let's not forget that there are plenty of non-Washington based issues out there that also should be the focus of the upcoming campaigns...
More than a year ago the city officials removed an entire lane of bus stops from that area and replaced them with parking meters. Now it has finally dawned on them that the last two parking spaces take up bus stop space...
About 1030 members of the Class of '87 took a trip down memory lane last Saturday night at the eighth annual Senior Soiree. In a traditional twist, Radcliffe women were expected to ask dates to the dance instead of vice versa...
...shall fight you on the land, on the sea and in the air, and we shall never surrender." With that Churchillian warning to smugglers, Deputy Commissioner Michael Lane of the U.S. Customs Service formally accepted two E- 2C Hawkeye radar planes from the U.S. Navy in San Diego. The ceremony was designed to showcase the high-tech weapons the Reagan Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar...
Many of the paved roads in Kenya are crumbling. They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line. A vehicle therefore speeds demonically down the dead center of a two-lane road, like a rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about...