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...right has also had trouble getting organized for next spring's presidential elections. Says former President Jose Napoleon Duarte, a Christian Democrat who is now the front-running contender: "[The death squads] want to stop the reforms. They want to stop the democratic process. And they want to stop the Christian Democrats from coming to power...
...Cobra-with horrible round eyes and had woman's, or at least Medusa's, breasts. [It] fastened on my neck." The origins of tabloid astrology can be traced to the predictions of Astrampsychus (circa A.D. 350): "Gladness of mind shows that you will live abroad"; and Napoleon 's Book of Fate (circa 1860): "For a young woman to dream that she is embraced by a gorilla means that she will have one of the handsomest and wisest men for a suitor...
Navy running back Napoleon McCallum was unstoppable in the first half, and Princeton quarterback Doug Butler led a strong comeback in the second, but the Midshipmen held on, leaving the Tigers at 2-1 in the Ivies, 3-2 overall...
...condition of music provides a more promising line of inquiry. Burgess explores lyric verse, the sprung rhythms of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the verbal polyphony of James Joyce. He envisions quasimusical novels built on principles of "structuralism, a liberation from marketplace meanings," and offers two of his own, M/Fand Napoleon Symphony, as exhibits...
...prospects for European integration. Past attempts, like those of Napoleon and Hitler, were to unite Europe by war. There could be an economic depression of such magnitude that the Europeans would have to join forces. Or the rise of a magnetic personality who could dominate all of Europe. None of these would I look forward to. Perhaps the best thing is to trust in the slow progress of reason. -By Donald Morrison