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...around the gunship, one here, one over there, one face up, another face down. A medic leads the stowaway off. The crew still stands by the craft, but no one wishes to move or speak. It is a moment of shock and disgrace. I squeeze the pilot's shoulder. "You see," he says, "here there really is a war going...
Poof! A puff of smoke and a little and devil on your right shoulder whispers in you ear, "Whaddaya doing, putz. You're two years past your sexual prime and slipping fast; you gonna pass this up, sucker...
Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulder asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't, would...
...University's oldest swimming record survived one more year as sophomore Tony Meier's 50/39 finish in the 100 butterfly missed Hess Yatema's 1973 mark by 128 seconds. Competing with an injured shoulder, Meier took 5th in the event, with senior Jack Gauthier grabbing sixth in 50.59. Princeton's Mike Smith retained his title, winning the race in 49.09--a new Eastern record...
Chomsky puts much of the blame for this "perverted" perception of Vietnam squarely on the shoulder of intellectuals and the press during the '60s and '70s. Self-interest prevented them from straying too far from the official government line. That view prompts Chomsky to see an American propaganda system that "seeks to determine and limit the entire spectrum of thought." The intelligentsia, except for occasional dissenters whom the press ignored, swallowed the government's accounts. One assumes they conformed so society would not ostracize them, though Chomsky never really makes this clear. he presents an impressive case showing the press...