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...life to writing and talking, with rare eloquence and power, about the despair of the past and the concerns of the present. Now a U.S. citizen, Wiesel, 56, has written some 30 books and is widely acknowledged, in the words of the Nobel committee chairman, as a "messenger to mankind." Later this month he will testify in the case of The State of France v. Klaus Barbie...
Persephone Crabtree, Adams House. Although Persephone is an honors candidate in Dadaist Lesbian Poetry, she has never lost, she say, "a strong moral commitment to mankind's responsibility to use science for the collective human good." No one was surprised, then, that it was the talented Miss Crabtree who finally cracked a puzzle which had been puzzling experts for a decade...
Elevators, the scourge of mankind, run rampant in the corporate world--a world where sweaty ugly people are forced by omnipresent hell-machines into unnatural proximity, their most aggravating habits torturously magnified in confinement...
...time," says Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. "We have a sick public health community that has been frankly intimidated by the homosexual lobby." Richard Viguerie, a New Right fund raiser, calls AIDS the "first politically protected disease in the history of mankind...
...time it took to type this out, mankind had its first radioactive mushroom cloud, and nothing would ever be the same. Project Director Oppenheimer realized this immediately, and his reach into Hindu scripture has become famous: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Even before the test blast, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr foresaw a fundamental change in the relationships among nation-states. Both Hitler and Churchill, on the other hand, failed to grasp the political consequences of the new energy. "After all," said the Prime Minister, "this new bomb is just going to be bigger than our present...