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Finally, there was considerable property damage -- about $300 million in Texas alone, where insulating home water pipes is seldom the uppermost thought on a homeowner's mind. Plumbers, not surprisingly, finished the year working overtime. Coming on the heels of two hurricanes as well as several floods and hailstorms, the frigid interlude signaled that home-insurance rates in the Lone Star State are likely...
...Czar Nicholas II. The TASS news agency reports with a straight face that aliens stepped out of UFOs in Voronezh. On TV, psychic healers appear frequently with supposed cures for everything from obesity to detached retinas. As in all periods of great stress, the Christian churches in Russia have seldom been fuller...
...introductory note to readers in the first issue, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III wrote, "You seldom have before you the complete text of policy statements that bear on college life. The Harvard College News, to be published four times a year, will attempt to address this problem...
...freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." At the same time, our present forward position is the end product of an equally long thrust of American expansion, which was propelled by the fact that our stay- at-home sentiments were seldom consistent: isolationist politicians, however much they disliked Europe, typically favored brandishing big sticks in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Look for an intramural fight over these questions the next time our ally Israel finds itself embroiled in a Middle Eastern war. It won't be pretty...
...Seldom in recent times has a regime cared so little for the real attitudes of outwardly loyal citizens or for the sincerity of their statements...