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Under the protocols of the blood feud, one act of revenge begot another, so that violence originating in some forgotten crime or slight could reverberate for generations. Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion. When the state assumed the responsibility for punishing an offense, the matter, in theory, ended there...
...AWOKE ONE morning in Winthrop to gray and red, colors of perfidy. Bricks, rain and Memorial Hall: blood, sweat, tears. A slight stomache ache precluded moussaka. Time to ask big questions, time to consider things buried in black and white reading lists. So he was driven to sleep 12 hours at a time, to postpone thinking although ideas danced fitfully. He contemplated writing a book on procrastination, but he knew he'd never finish. Thin layers of tension peeled away, evincing gastric elegies. Thought would have to wait...
...questions were asked in a soft voice by a slight, graying American woman as she faced a throng of reporters in Tehran, about 7,000 miles from her home in Oak Creek, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee. Only hours ahead of a ban on travel to Iran imposed on Americans by the President, Barbara Timm, 41, had flown to Tehran on a unique maternal odyssey. She wanted to visit her son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, who, at 20, is the youngest of the 53 hostages. At her side was her second husband, Kenneth Timm, 42, a construction machinery salesman...
...teach English. To the extent Harvard gave him the opportunity, it worked in conformity with Nature; to the extent Harvard frustrated him, it sinned against Providence and human potential. After a first meeting Jonathan might not have seemed suited to the role of lecturer. He had a habitual slight stammer. But this disappeared when he lapsed, as he did frequently and nearly unconsciously, from his own words into a quotation from a poem. It then became clear which was his native language, his real voice...
...receptive to liberal appeals. There is no "crossover" voting; anti-Carter Democrats cannot stray to the Republican primary, as they have in some states, but must either mark their ballots for Kennedy or stay home from the polls. Indeed, Carter's private polls last week showed Kennedy with a slight lead...