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George had $64 tucked in his pocket on the evening he was beaten senseless in an alley near the Continental Trailways station. "Those damn chumps," he says, gritting his teeth, "took every goddam penny. I'm gonna kill 'em." Violence is a constant threat to the homeless. It's only a matter of time before newcomers are beaten, robbed or raped. The young prey on the old, the big on the small, and groups attack lonely individuals in the back alleys and subway tunnels. After it's over, there is no one to tell about the pain, nothing...
...APPROACH the second national commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Gr. 's birthday, it is imperative to understand that we pay homage to him not solely because he was assassinated, as so many Americans wrongly assume. In times scarred by the senseless bigotry of the Howard Beach incident, by a President eager to orchestrate the deracination of the legislative gains of the 1960s, and by self-serving Black conservative academicians who plead for cessation of all civil rights activity, our nation must look back in time to King's accomplishments and his vision...
...Born in the USA" make clear that Springsteen has a much saner view. He knows that the cause of the war was morally suspect. "They sent me off to some foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man." Springsteen, whose first drummer died in Vietnam, recognizes the senseless tragedy of the war. "I had a brother at Khe Sahn / Fighting off the Viet Cong / They're still there / He's all gone...
...writing, therefore, to ask for an explanation and reconsideration of the seemingly senseless decision to deny tenure to all three. I understand that explaining such a decision after the fact is hardly common practice, and reconsideration even less usual. It seems to me, however, that these are special cases, coming as they do so soon after Mr. Spence's announcement last spring that the University would begin to try to promote faculty members from within...
...senseless a definition could prevail only in a time when there are few social penalties for destructively free behavior. The crime of murder carries demonstrably severe penalties, and so requires no continuous statement of community disapproval. But for the great range of social crimes, for everything from gossip to greed, no sanctions exist except those that a community informally may agree to impose: banishment, disgrace, curtailment of income. In the world these days, social crimes rarely are penalized and often are rewarded. Investment companies receive relatively small fines for major theft. Insider traders are glorified as clever. A best-selling...