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Laura Marx is yet another senior who foundherself shut out of her Core-of-choice. "When Iwas lotteried out I was very upset. I was livid...
Perhaps so, but they were something to Barnes, even though he wasn't at all the gentleman that Annenberg is. In the meantime, the voice you hear muttering as you revel in your first sight of the Barnes paintings may not be an acoustiguide. It could be the livid shade of the antiseptic millionaire, undeterred by the artgoing public's exclamations of delight...
THERE WAS SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY ABOUT returning to the chambers of the Senate Judiciary Committee for another livid lesson in how America really lives. For the second time in less than two years, this time in the wake of a convulsive election, the American people took their leaders by surprise, sat them down, chewed them out, and then wearily explained in one-syllable words what voters feel they should be able to demand of the people with the privilege of borrowed power...
...MOST LIVID SCAR FROM LAST SPRING'S RIOTS IN South Central Los Angeles, the intersection of Florence and Normandie where the videotaped beating of truck driver Reginald Denny took place, was lacerated anew last Monday. What started as a peaceful demonstration for the "L.A. 4," still awaiting trial for the Denny beating, degenerated into a melee of brick and bottle throwing that injured 12. This time, however, the L.A.P.D. piled in immediately. Three hundred officers in riot gear made 55 swift arrests, overwhelming the disorder. With both the Denny case and the Rodney King case coming up in February...
...FRENCH-MADE DRUG RU 486 CANNOT BE IMported into the U.S. for a reason that makes pro-choice people livid: it is a safe way of inducing nonsurgical abortions. But a new study done at the University of Edinburgh shows that the drug actually prevents pregnancy in the first place. If taken within 72 hours after intercourse, the drug keeps a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. The same happens if a woman takes a high dose of birth-control pills, but RU 486 has fewer side effects. As an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine points...