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Some aspects of the Falklands' somnolent life have not changed. There is no television, though videocassette players are proliferating (the most popular movies: M*A*S*H and Julia). The telephones have crank handles and are operated by a sole switchboard. The brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week...
Didion writes of a visit to a "body dump" outside of San Salvador, not unlike garbage dumps in this country--with the sole exception that human remains replace refuse. Overlooking the dump on a hill, Didion came across a man teaching a woman to drive, with three small children looking...
...credit to the fans' devotion is Harvard's 12-1-1 record at home, with the icemen's sole loss coming to St. Lawrence, one of the ECAC's best teams, in January-always a tough month for the Crimson. "The fans have done it all season, and they did it tonight," Cleary said...
...Michigan St. fans were so ostentatious as Borgman, but almost all of those who made the journey last were as devoted Many of the 400 or so Spartan supporters belong to the MST Blue Line Club, a group not affiliated with the University whose sole function is to support the hockey team...
...perfectly aware that it was doing so under the watchful eye of the U.S.--one of the few, but obviously crucial, nations in the international community which has persisted in failing to recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian national aspirations, and the role of the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. What would have been threatened by such recognition was not Israel's security, but rather the sanctity of America's illusions about Israel and the Palestinian--illusions which have been necessary to rationalize the U.S. government's funding and arming of the Israeli government...