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ALBUM: IN ON THE KILL TAKER...
Despite a few innovative moments, many of the songs on In on the Kill Taker sound like tunes from the quartet's 1991 CD, Steady Diet of Nothing; and come to think of it, that album sounded a lot like the band's 1990 release, Repeater. Fugazi's greatest achievement, however, is not its music but its idealism. And idealism repeated over and over in the face of potentially corrupting success is a tribute to itself. Fugazi is living, punk-rocking proof that, as one of these new tracks says, "if it's not for sale...
When the pill finds a maker, how will it reach the taker? Its proponents, especially those hoping to make the clinic protesters vanish, agree that France's tightly controlled distribution method was devised, as a New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it, "for political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu...
...mutinous editors at the famously sleazy tabloid who refused to relinquish control to real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, the latest multimillionaire to attempt to take over the paper. In 20 pages of nonstop abuse, Post staffers described Hirschfeld as a "nut," a racist, a deplorable landlord, a hostage taker, a sociopath and an anti-Semite -- a daring allegation, given that Hirschfeld is Jewish...
...Johnson and his friends seemed in training merely to become hoodlums. Johnson half- jokingly explains that his early running from police officers and wrestling with other boys kept him in shape. "He's still got a wild side, a sharp edge," says Franson. "He's a committed risk taker, which is just what you need when a competition comes down to the crunch." Although Johnson made a local all-star baseball team as a pitcher, he continued to put much more energy into such nighttime activities as breaking into the warehouse of a local beer distributor...