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Pippert has approached journalistic truth in ways he says were criticized as unconventional. As UPI's Middle East bureau chief, he beefed up coverage of the West Bank, filling the wire with short, three-to-four paragraph dispatches about conditions in the controversial Israeli territory...
...letter from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee in yesterday's edition of The Crimson contained a typographical error. A sentence in the third to last paragraph should have read, "Instead, the University appears to have acted according to a predetermined plan which left no scope for any legitimate and peaceful act of civil disobedience which would not have prevented the speech from continuing...
...with lively ideas. His theme is "dare to be different," and he advocates, among other things, taxing the Social Security benefits of couples with incomes above $32,000 a year. Among Babbitt's problems: he never seems to speak a sentence when he can get by with a paragraph. Though he has a proficient campaign organization, he is as dark as dark horses come...
...duke speaks of many things African and animal, and warns at the end of each paragraph that such things should not be written about because publicity is fatal. Now you see the duke. Now you don't. He concludes with a flourish of suave obliteration, "If there was one species you could remove to the benefit of the earth, it would be man." Among the animal lovers, it is not unusual to encounter that misanthropic streak. The animal lovers seem to feel themselves to be just as besieged as the animals...
...also registers the everyday details of a nation's collective suicide: people are said to be feasting on corpses; ten-year-olds take their own lives; in a single paragraph May laconically records the deaths of three of his siblings. Some of these horrors may seem almost routine to those who have seen the film The Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed...