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...like a forbidden swear word. We also couldn't tell one another to "shut up." Without access to this sort of incendiary language, fighting was less satisfying. And although no one ever insisted that I had to like my brother and sisters (yuck!), we were expected to be grudgingly loyal to one another. This was driven home to me the time my big sisters intervened in a problem I was having with a playmate by telling the kid, "You can't beat up our little sister--that...
...While he has clearly failed to convince most physicists, Mills has recruited a small but fiercely loyal coterie of researchers to sit on the board of his firm...
...Sankoh would send a message to his men to stop their campaign. Information minister Dr. Julius Spencer also told the BBC that if Sankoh failed to comply, "appropriate steps" would be taken. But if the rebel forces that have terrorized Sierra Leone for much of the past decade remain loyal to Sankoh, they're likely to demand his release as part of the price for freeing the hostages...
...regime of the '60s and '70s prevailed, Zimbabwe would now be well down the democratic road to equitable land distribution as well as peace and harmony--not to mention economic stability. Britain, in particular, has a lot to answer for, especially the lives of the white farmers (and their loyal black workers) who are being sacrificed on the altar of political expedience. DAVID J. PARSLEY Johannesburg...
...sextet Entrain opened for Cliff. An odd mix of musicians from Martha's Vineyard, the band played an energetic and varied set, but never quite got the crowd going aside from a few loyal fans. The most colorful band member was an elderly man who dressed like some of my Grandpa's card game buddies, and looked like he belonged driving a tractor instead of laying down a ska line on the trombone. Entrain doesn't have that much of a reggae sound, except for some pseudo-Rastafarian moments (like their recent album title All is One) and their apparent...