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Others offered strained justifications. Said a young woman who called herself Afreeka Omfree: "It's really sort of beautiful. Everybody is out on the streets together. There's sort of a party atmosphere." Declared a young man in Bushwick: "Prices have gone too high. Now we're going to have no prices. When we get done, there ain't gonna be no more Broadway." Said a man in his 30s, grasping a wine bottle in one hand and a TV set in another: "You take your chance when you get a chance." Added Gino, 19, a father...
...unconvincing. There were a number who blamed Con Ed's own defects and described with pride the superior safety features of their own systems. Yet on closer consideration, few power executives were willing to say flatly-and publicly-that they could offer ironclad security against the same sort of failure...
...Ethiopians fear that the loss of Eritrea could become the first important step in the disintegration of their country. They have been training 200,000 peasant militiamen to make a sort of human-wave assault on Eritrea, reinforcing the 25,000 hard-pressed regular troops on duty in the province. But the Eritreans are far more highly motivated. "We didn't see any reason to fight and die here," explained one of the 500 Ethiopians who surrendered during their recent losing battle for the city of Tessenei. "The Eritreans wanted a victory, and they got it. We want...
...THEIR AGASSIZ concert this past weekend, Jim and Lorry May chose five duets, all a certain sort of dance piece, not at all subtle, rather hardened, theater dances in the same sense that there are theater people. If the concert made a statement, it was that the Mays believe in that world...
Before he came here, Dinnerstein said, he hadn't been sure about applying to Harvard for college. "I'd sort of heard that Harvard was a really over-rated school, but the classes have been good and I've liked it a lot," he said. He'll probably try to set up an interview with the undergraduate Admissions Office before he leaves Cambridge this summer...