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...face of rampant injustice. Luka guides some of the drifters to dream of a better life in a distant future and of helping people in the present instead of drowning in cold, hard realities. Fitzgerald's Luka is gentle and his good humor is radiant. Even with a shock of blond hair he cuts a better wizened-old man than many wizened...
Campaign spokesperson Dan Gerstein '89 entered the plaza in a state of shock, unsure of how his team had lost...
...then the country was given its first shock of the night--after analysis of exit polls, the major networks decided to take Florida from the Gore electoral column, putting the state back up for grabs...
...year ran a poster with the slogan US HERE, THEM THERE. But it was supposed to be the result of peace talks. U.S. diplomats fear that separation--even if it comes in response to a unilateral move by Arafat--will lead only to more violence as Palestinians feel the shock of isolation. "For the peace process, unilateral separation is truly disastrous," says a U.S. diplomat. "What flows from it is inevitable conflict." The appeal of separation for Israelis is that they could pull their soldiers back to more defensible positions in the West Bank, avoiding the friction points...
...SHOCK THERAPY Sure, portable defibrillators are designed to save lives, but put them in a public place, like an airplane or a casino, and survival rates soar. Reports show that in casinos the heart-shocking devices rescued 53% of people in cardiac arrest. On airplanes, where it's easier to confuse an unconscious passenger with, say, a sleeping one, they saved 40%. U.S. survival rates, by comparison, are a dismal 5% because of time lost waiting for the paramedics. The findings are so encouraging that doctors want defibrillators (cost: $3,000) to become as commonplace as fire extinguishers...