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...post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians have taken down their COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with a repair. Strangers always wave at him as they drive by. "One man, a white man, he had a whole arm out of the car. That's normal, natural around here," he says...
...Glass panels enable staff to see most areas without having to enter them. Traditionally, mental-health programs separate the most severely disturbed from others; as a patient's condition improves, he must move to a new building, new doctors, a new community. But shuttling between clinics can take its toll. "Change is really disruptive in these people's lives," says division manager Mike Nielsen. "They can't handle going to a whole new agency and dealing with new people...
...quarter century of alleged abuse finally took its toll on a Mt. Auburn St. landmark yesterday, when city-commissioned landscapers cut down the historic tree in front of the One Freedom Square headquarters of The Harvard Lampoon...
Predictably, all 10 students are inveterate risk takers who still believe that one person can make a difference. "We all have the fire in our belly," says Sarah Ann Gonzales, a San Diego elementary school principal. "That's what drives us." The choice has exacted a toll. Most are divorced and have long since accepted what one calls "a somewhat monastic" personal life...
...undo Saddam Hussein's human rights atrocities? Military confrontation over Kuwait will only increase the toll of suffering on the devastated Kuwaiti people...