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Pictures can capture history, but in 1992 they also changed its course. From Baidoa to Los Angeles to Sarajevo, the power of extraordinary photos captured the world's attention and broke through to stir the individual conscience...
Another fatality may be baseball's unique antitrust exemption, which a U.S. Senate panel, in separate hearings, was threatening to revoke. But would a lifting of baseball's monopoly be enough to stir sufficient rowdy capitalist competition to save the sport? The owners have made the game such a tragicomic disaster area that one hardly knows whether to call in the Marines or send in the clowns...
...only a 700 square foot shop," DiGiovanni said. "It's amazing that a store this size is causing such a stir...
SOMETIMES ONLY DEATH WILL STIR THE living. Last week the continuing horror at three deaths from a fire bombing -- of a 51-year-old grandmother, her niece and her granddaughter -- and the torrent of denunciations that followed the deaths did just that, shocking German officialdom into wakefulness. Demonstrations that began the day after the Nov. 23 attack in the northern city of Molln persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY...
...fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply for want of a more precise descriptive term. You'll thematize your timetable...