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...members of ACT-UP find Senator Helms' political stands objectionable, there can be no justification for the advocacy of murder as a means of silencing Mr. Helms or his supporters. ACT-UP claims to be concerned with protecting life (through increased AIDS research), but it is plain that they are only interested in protecting the lives of people whose morals (or lack of same) agree with theirs...
Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...magic was to inspire foot soldiers and generals alike, blending English lords with plain Americans, reconciling and focusing the energies of haughty, contentious commanders such as Britain's Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and the U.S Third Army's General George Patton. Holding the trust of the grandiloquent politicians such as Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was just as challenging. It took all Ike had and four packs of Camels...
What every happened to "weird," or "strange" or even plain old "unusual...
...They outplayed us, plain and simple," Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton said. "They got the momentum going and we didn't do anything to get it back...