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...people are unenthusiastic about becoming eligible for the slim privileges that go with age. A 50-year-old man who receives an invitation to join an organization that offers vitamin discounts for the mature may resent it as a harbinger of that dreaded day when he takes his wife's hand during an evening stroll through the park and overhears some college kid on a nearby bench saying, "Isn't that cute...
After a century of having experienced and gotten entirely sick of living through disorder and pain, most Chinese intuitively resent the risk of undergoing another large-scale revolution. They have had enough in the past. What they are really yearning for is quick development with relatively tolerable ills, which, as they have gradually come to realize, can only be achieved in a stable society. The idea of getting freedom at the price of a traumatic revolution does not look great to a common practical mind. Just watch how the reaction of the Chinese changed after the army put down...
...BOSNIAN SERB LIVING IN CANADA, I resent your depiction of Radovan Karadzic as "the Bosnian Serbs' fuhrer" in your report "Now It's Serb Against Serb" [WORLD, Jan. 22]. Blame should be placed on Alija Izetbegovic and Franjo Tudjman as well. They have done the same amount of damage to the people of the former Yugoslavia as has Karadzic. Even though I personally don't like Karadzic, I wouldn't put him in the same class as Hitler. Any personal vendetta against Serbian politicians is deplorable. ILIJA TANOVIC Windsor, Ontario Via E-mail...
Allowing departmental bypasses would make the new and improved Core more palatable to students by addressing a fundamental characteristic of Harvard undergraduates (or at least the vocal segment thereof): We resent being told what...
...puzzled. He would love to open his re-election campaign by bragging about low inflation, low interest rates and 7.8 million new jobs since he took office. But his advisers warn that in all 50 states many voters feel that prosperity is only for the rich and would resent any excessive White House happy talk. The aides' advice as Clinton prepared his State of the Union speech: Claim only a promising start on righting the economy. Stress that much remains to be done...