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Opportunists eagerly await their chances as the old regime crumbles, to be replaced by the uncertainty and instability which come from newfound freedom. Among these opportunists are both common felons and power-hungry leaders. Both of these groups fuel the instability by either committing or instigating violent acts; sometimes it is difficult to tell them apart. Indeed, the political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides...
...month to spend unlimited time on the network, while John, 43, a police officer, pays $79.95 for a 90-hour-a-month package. The two of them spend hour after hour perched in front of their computer screens playing games and exchanging E-mail messages with old friends, newfound acquaintances and even, sometimes, each other...
...collective awakening to our economic dilemma is at least a positive step. What's not positive--and may be ultimately dangerous--is the lack of an electoral channel for this revelation. Ross Perot, who has done so much to create the newfound awareness, is still the only visible politician with credibility on the issue...
Hackney's statement, it seemed, crystallized the difficulties many national universities--including Harvard--are having as they struggle with newfound heterogeneity and its backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error: a dangerous and incomplete definition of "diversity," and a failure to recognize that at a university, open expression is, and must be, paramount...
...prepare for the effort ahead, the team has spent the last several weekends in tuneup games against various teams. After defeating season-long rival Navy in Annapolis two weekends ago, Harvard crushed a junior all-star team from Newfound-land last weekend...