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...stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
...pretty crazy out there," said one UMass police dispatcher, citing the newspapers thrown from the upper stories of one of the 20-floor buildings. "People go crazy," she added, noting that students often react this way to UMass's "periodic" blackouts. "But then they calm down," she said. --The Daily Collegian
Though sympathetic to the business viewpoint, the Commerce Department's Olmer contends that too many businessmen react to the issue with "hyperbole in the extreme." He contends that it should not be too difficult to "both control trade and protect trade." Indeed, he points out, the stakes could be high. "I can remember some people claiming that rock-bit drilling technology was of no conceivable military use to the Soviets," he says. "Yet we now know that technology has been used by the Russians to develop armor-piercing shells. I sure wouldn't want...
SOUTH AFRICAN dramatists and writers alike must continually resist the considerable temptation to overuse apartheid themes in their work. In artistic terms, after all, it's a safe bet. The writer knows very well where he stands, what his task is--he can count on the audience to react predictably. Readers and viewers, too, are attracted to the theme: they can feel the profound emotions of injustice and compassion without too much effort. There is an almost conditioned response involved...
Harold Washington's victory challenges the strength of big-city political machines. The expectations will follow Washington into office, and may force him to adopt new strategies and policies. But his success stems in part from successfully adopting machine methods. It remains to be seen how Washington will react to the problems he will encounter, but whether he decides to redefine the rules of the political game or not, it will boil down to him using the old machine, or subverting is with his new populist...