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...hostile fire. However, the grainy but riveting videos of U.S. bombs and missiles whistling down enemy smokestacks heralded a new way of waging war from the skies. New weapons with ever increasing accuracy lead the Pentagon to be confident that few will stray, thus limiting what military euphemists refer to as "collateral damage"--innocent, but dead, civilians...
...said to have wrestled with such issues as what to do if the President dies and how to deal with masses of dead or severely ill citizens, considerations reminiscent of civil-defense planning for nuclear war. The planners are so certain that another worldwide epidemic will occur that they refer to the present as the "interpandemic period...
...Though there are still many Russians who cannot afford these goods, many Russians besides mafiosos are joining the consumer class. The term Noviye Russkie, or New Russian, which used to apply only to the small crop of crooked Russian multi-millionaires, is becoming harder to define. Soon it may refer to a large comfortable middle class of Russians who enjoy the prosperity of consumerism. Such a middle class, though growing, does not yet exist. Since the fall of communism, the latent class divisions of the Soviet era have risen to the surface. As one expert on Russian society told...
...this is still too oblique or elliptical you may wish to refer to the ending of Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, when the lights go out in the radio studio during the Blitz and Joel McCrea calls into the mike, "Hello, America. Hang onto your lights. They're the only lights left in the world...
...journalists (or "alleged journalists") and as members of a small community, your use of public facts should be tempered by a sense of responsibility and by the recognition that what you print has consequences. When you refer to Elster (in centimeter-high letters, no less) as "the alleged rapist," and when you fill your front page with innuendo-laced drivel, you contribute to--nay, create--a presumption of guilt within the Harvard community which I believe will be impossible for Elster to counteract, should be actually turn out to be what the law currently presumes him to be: innocent. SCOTT...