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...Menace and the Yellow Peril. Public indebtedness, said Thomas Jefferson, who spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more fevered right-wing swamps. Then came the 1980s...
...five-year-old Malcolm X student. Jordan, along with others, patrols the neighborhood at night, a flashlight in one hand, and -- until recently -- a gun in the other. "If you sat down a third-grader and asked him how to weigh crack, how to bag it, how to load a 9-mm, how a beeper works, you're going to get first-rate answers right...
...double hit in Manchester came one day after a foiled bombing attempt in London. Police discovered and disarmed a load of explosives hidden in a van parked in central London's West End. It was the third I.R.A. attack that authorities have managed to disrupt in the past two weeks, although last April three people were killed in a spectacular bombing that caused $1 billion in damage to the financial district. In the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast, meanwhile, 27 bystanders were injured last week when panic broke out upon discovery of a bomb hidden in a travel agency. Said...
Carter battled a foot injury all through the 1991-92 campaign, but the senior power forward is expected to take some of the inside load off of Rullman this season, according to Sullivan...
...Coach John Dooley and the Crimson hope to recover from the loss of four of the team's top six scorers. Two of those four, in particular, were major losses: Sandra Whyte (21 goals-18 assists-39 points) and Jen Minkus (8-14-22) bore much of the scoring load last year...