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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediately decided it was a third-rate school it was only its reputation. It was only surviving by its reputation, that one sight was enough to convince him the place was nowhere...
...figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could see the paint pellets spin past me, although they were too fast to duck away from. My fourth or fifth shot hit the red player, who said "Aaaargh!"the way comic-book villains used...
North to Byblos. Ads for Woody Allen movies and a curious recurring road sign, BABY LOVE ME, that seems to have no reference. Here one is yet farther from the war. Not a soldier in sight. Only the ancient city and the ancient port, still protected by a Crusader fortress. Kids in bathing suits dangle their legs from the tops of the walls. Pleasure boats bob in the water where the Phoenicians once sailed. Is this Lebanon too? At lunch at the Fishing Club restaurant, one makes cheerful conversation with the owner, Pepe Abed, half Mexican, half Lebanese, who boasts...
...Sixth Street People's Park in the South of Market section of San Francisco, but Wino Park, as it is locally known, is hardly a community asset. Skid Row Park is-or at least promises to be. Graffiti on a wall and sprawling drunks are never a pleasant sight. But despite them, youngsters in Skid Row Park use the basketball court, and smaller children play in the sandbox. Most of the neighborhood-illegal Mexican immigrants, destitute transients, the elderly and other community residents-seem to take equal pride in the place. It is their park...
...probably would not have won over the traditional Democratic constituencies "whose support swept him into the White House." Neoconservatives had been counting on Reagan to reverse "the decline of American power": nevertheless, after looking at other possible candidates, they have now concluded that "there is no one else in sight. This is why we are hoping against hope that the President is not in fact fully aware" that his tactics don't serve the strategy "he professes to believe in." The pulled punch again...