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...soaked through his T shirt, emblazoned XHMP-Xerox Health Management Program. His face is mottled with exertion, his eyes narrowed to the 1,000-yard stare of a man at the limit of endurance. Beta endorphins, chemicals released by the body during sustained strenuous exercise, calm his nerves, suppress his appetite and relieve his pain. Increased blood circulation as a result of the exercise may improve White's heart muscle. Such are the small miracles of activity: insurance factors in a stressful and sedentary life...
...values). There is another, equally important, foundation: brute force. But brute force can be efficient only when used together with fear and lie. When neither of them exists anymore; when violence can not be met by fear and justified by lie; even brute force is not able to suppress people's striving for freedom and justice...
...were told not to print the story to 'protect the victim'," Kellen said, adding that he did protect the student "morally and legally" by withholding the name, and that he ran the story because "the students have a right to know." Kellen said that school officials tried to suppress the story to avoid unfavorable publicity about campus security...
Authorities in Warsaw were getting ready for a possible confrontation. Addressing a tense session of parliament, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski announced that special army units would join police to suppress "deepening anarchy, hooliganism, antistate and anti-Soviet excesses." He implied that force might be used unless Solidarity retreated from the boldly political demands it had adopted at the first Gdansk session two weeks earlier. That meeting had called for free democratic elections, worker control of industrial enterprises and-most provocative of all-the spread of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet-controlled East bloc...
...Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those who try to suppress the Irish; their victims nonetheless eventually rise to wealth through suffering (a theme of Rich Man, Poor Man). Virtue among the good English is measured by willingness to subordinate their lives to the Irish cause. Despite mechanical plotting, the first two hours evoke a world that can still outrage...