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SPEND NEXT WEEKEND in New Hampshire and You'll be struck by the activism of today's youth; students will he trudging through the snow, knocking on doors, and manning phone banks for their favorite candidates. But wait until election day and you'll sec quite a different scenario-people from ages 18 to 24 vote less frequently, and follow races less closely, than any other American demographic group. What is more, young Americans are now avoiding the polls in unprecedented numbers, earning them the moniker "the silent group...
...little more than five minutes to deal with the clash of troops, tanks, and tactical nuclear weapons in a European conflict. For the other two-hours and 55 minutess (including commercials), 70 million Americans viewed Kansas both before and after a general thermonuclear attack. You may recall the scenario: political upheaval in East Germany; Warsaw Pact siege of West Berlin; attack of NATO tank forces to relieve the beleaguered city; counterattack; NATO use of small nuclear weapons against an overwhelming Pact advance; holocaust...
While purely hypothetical now this scenario could actually happen next September when the Law School starts up its newest computer program...
...absurdity of such a position is obvious. If Blacks had the resources to sue individually every racist in America, there probably wouldn't be much of a problem in the first place (although in such a "sue-'em-all scenario," the courts would undoubtedly become over-crowded to the point of collapse). Less amusing is the fact that "merit" is usually trumpeted as the supreme good which affirmative action undermines, while in reality, anyone can name a thousand and one instances in which factors other than merit were taken into acount in, for example, getting a job. There...
...plot for Stephen King's next excursion into the macabre? No, the real-life scenario now being played out by film makers scrambling to bring the works of America's hottest horror writer to the screen. Christine, based on King's recent bestseller about a killer automobile, opened around the country in early December, the sixth film of a King novel and the third to be released in the past five months. It followed last summer's Cujo, about a murderously rabid St. Bernard, and The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken as a schoolteacher tormented...