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...Sunday as the two-day cease-fire between government and rebel forces wavered and aid workers evacuated the seaside capital. Civilians scrambled for food and shelter as government soldiers continued shelling rebel army barracks and sporadic arms fire erupted downtown. The latest fighting, which threatens to unravel a tenous peace reached last year, points up the very deep fault lines in the country, says TIME's Andrew Purvis: "There are few recognized authorities. Militia men will steal your car, they will shoot you, they will do what they want depending on their mood." The reasons are largely economic: "Everyone...
UUNFORTUNATELY, however, that is not "the end." Woven in among the tenous plot threads are various images and metaphors that Robbins feels compelled to pick apart in the last few pages of the book. Why all this talk about pyramids and Camel packages and red-headed people and princesses and the moon? The reason, explains Robbins, is that all of these sundry things share one characteristic: they are means of connecting ourselves with "the mystery" that makes love important to the human race. The author extends his argument by noting that although mystery likes movement, we only perceive it when...
Chris Ohiri had set another meet record in the afternoon, broad-jumping 23 ft., 5 1/2 in. These early points gave the Crimson a tenous lead going into the evening field events and the middle distance runs, but the paucity of Crimson trackmen entered in these ruined any hopes of a team title...
...however, Gaitskell was able to persuade the conferences that his threat to spread the quarrel between the two wings of his Party was, to say the least, inopportune. But the sudden effusion of peace rallies, "Ban the Bomb" movements and agitation for unilateral nuclear disarmament have lost Gaitskell his tenous hold on the rank-and-file of the Left...
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