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Americans tend to cherish the idea that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
...news of the Prime Minister's death began to spread through New Delhi, there were screams, weeping and tearing of hair, but mostly the kind of stoic acceptance that Indians tend to show in times of sorrow and pain. "She's gone," they told one another, rarely using her name, because in India, "she" meant Indira. All around Connaught Place, the capital's commercial center, there was the sound of steel shutters slamming down as shop after shop closed for twelve days of mourning. By late afternoon, New Delhi had become a ghostly city of empty streets. Flags were lowered...
Most of the factors contributing to the halycon Republican forcast are demographically oriented Presently, the electorate is undergoing powerful transformations, and these changes tend to bolster the GOP's political stamina...
...Armageddon,* is Revelation 16. Most scholars believe that Revelation and other prophecies refer to such epochal events as Jesus' death and resurrection and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. Others see them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual struggle between good and evil. Liberal theologians tend to discount them altogether...
Compounding the attendance bulge is a new college trend. "Right now," says Santa Cruz Housing Services Director Jerry Walters, "living on campus in dormitories is in." Off-campus, do-your-thing pads have given way to the practical fact that campus quarters tend to be cheaper and more convenient. "Students want to be closer to campus and involved in campus activity," says B.U. Housing Director Marcus Buckley. "They want to study and not worry about the heat or their next meal." The bottom line, again, may be the reality of getting ready for that job. Says Dean Mary Ackerman...