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...warns the Superlawyers that their secretive world no longer remains secure. They must begin answering to the public for the policies which originate from their offices. Seeing himself as a crusader in exposing the Superlawyers. Goulden views the traditional Washington Lawyer running scared: "...he is feeling the same sting of 'responsibility' as are corporate executives; he is learning to live with the awareness that his self-prescribed privacy no longer insulates him from the rest of the world...
Like an insect version of Genghis Khan, the fierce Brazilian bees are coming. Millions of them are swarming northward from the Amazon basin at the rate of 200 miles a year, liquidating passive colonies of native bees in their path, quick to sting-and sometimes kill-any unwary animal or person. At their present rate they will conquer all of South America in the next ten years, and start to invade Central America. Unless stopped by man, the bees will eventually invade Mexico and the southern...
...into Olmpic competition again. AS seniors on the Harvard eight that had represented the United States in Mexico City most of them had realized that they would be going their separate rowing ways after the Games. There had been no tommorrow for them as oursmen. Therefore the sting of their decisive defeat lingered...
...sooner does a generation unlearn a racial epithet than the stigma loses its sting. Consider, for example, the burgeoning controversy over the title of a new Western film. The Legend of Nigger Charley. Paramount released the movie with the "historical explanation" that the character of Nigger Charley was based on black cowboys who roamed the West after the Civil War -a period in which the term was in common currency and not necessarily derogative. But Charley's well-documented credentials failed to satisfy a number of newspaper, television and radio advertising executives. For example, the Oregonian first changed...
WELL, most of the time we stayed at the beach. It was too cold to swim very much. We...collected shells. And we saw a sting...