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...salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." And, "It is desirable that the burden of all should be equal, but it is still more desirable to put an end to robbery and murder." Thus stated the case for the constrained vision becomes more impressive than Sowell's rather pedestrian prose could otherwise have made...
...films, with the pounding score and super-slow motion. But there, at least, you generally give a damn about the teams that are playing. Here, you really are given no motivation, beyond the need to create in your mind a reasonable explanation for the driving synthetic soundtrack and didactic, pedestrian dialogue...
...enjoying their first days of freedom, Soviet authorities were cracking down on refuseniks, citizens who have asked to be allowed to emigrate but have been refused. Last Monday a group of about 20 refuseniks, mostly Soviet Jews, gathered on Arbat Street, a historic Moscow thoroughfare recently renovated into a pedestrian mall. They stood for 90 minutes with signs that read FREE YOSIF BEGUN and LET US GO TO ISRAEL. Begun, who in 1983 was sentenced to twelve years of prison and exile for publishing anti-Soviet literature, has recently been placed under "strict regime," meaning that his food rations have...
...called a Euro. I have an asymmetrical, dyed hairstyle and tend to wear clothing from the 20s. Sometimes I wonder aloud why we are even sitting in this class, for indeed we are all going to die someday, and then what? I think section discussions are all so pedestrian, for I once read a book by T.S. Eliot and then debated its relevance to the underground music movement over a cup of coffee and a clove cigarette at a nameless cafe with a man wearing a beret-like hat. I too sometimes wear a beret-like...
...power brokers. The explosion sent his bulletproof + car flying more than 50 ft. across the pavement. Miraculously, the car landed on its wheels, and Chamoun escaped with only cuts and scratches. "God is protecting us," he concluded. Others were not so lucky. The explosion took the lives of a pedestrian and three of Chamoun's bodyguards, who were traveling in a separate car, and injured 35 others...