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...thrown on the trash pile 18 years ago not because I couldn't do the work at my job but because I was considered old. I had to grin at the man who made the decision to get rid of me. I thought at the time, "You are going to be paying me while I play." And so he has, and his children and grandchildren also will be doing so because I expect to be hanging in there 18 more years. ELLEN M. GREER Kissimmee...
...conclusion as the author. "After we read the book, we realized that even Sesame Street wasn't good for a child," says Linda Raspet. "It is rather schizophrenic, and we didn't want our daughter's mind to be programmed like that. That is when we decided to get rid of the TV altogether...
...learned guerrilla tactics with the Frelimo rebels of Portuguese-ruled Mozambique. He discovered pan-Africanism and Lenin. "Lenin wrote that imperialism was the economic penetration of backward areas by advanced countries. Colonialism was the political superstructure of this," says Museveni. "The message to us was, Until you get rid of both, you'll never be free, and you'll never develop...
There he practiced what he now calls "cleansing" violence. If rebellion was the only way to rid Uganda of its rapacious despots, he would lead one. Starting in early 1981 with 30 men and 27 stolen rifles, he entered Kampala five years later as the head of a highly motivated, highly disciplined army of more than...
...people argue against the fundamental rightness of stigmatizing and ultimately trying to rid the planet of a weapon that maims and kills more than 2,000 people every month. But experts on the ground fear that the high-profile diplomatic campaign for a ban may detract from the less glamorous work of removing some of the millions of mines already planted...