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...Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...
...years later, a girl came running into Mr. Covino's fifth grade class, heralding through mask of shock and sweat that the Challenger had exploded just moments after liftoff. A mood of solemnity hung over Grafflin Elementary School that afternoon and it lingered for several days. Parents and teachers related how they had learned of the Kennedy assassination in a similar fashion. Sometime later that year, a current events-minded teacher took a poll, and my classmates voted the Challenger incident to be the most important news story...
...reaction" on spaceflight disasters in 1967 and 1986 that killed 10 Americans. "Our record here has been far less threatening," concludes Blagov. Maybe. While the Russian space program claims only two deaths in its 36 years of operation, tight-lipped secrecy among military space program officials is thought to mask dozens of other deaths from launch pad explosions, rumors that are not likely to reassure NASA officials...
...many students at Harvard hunger for human affection. Some solve the problem by living vicariously through the gossiped lives of others. After all, it is considerably easier to discuss the affections of others than to acknowledge our own. It's likewise less painful to mask our failings in a veil of situational celibacy than to wrestle with the deeper, more troubling lack of human closeness. It doesn't have to be this way. It's springtime, damn...
...WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif.--University of California Regent Ward Connerly, who pushed forward the university's affirmative action repeal two years ago, now wants to take names off UC applications before they are processed to mask applicants' race...