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...returned a decade ago from exile in Paris to an equally hysterical welcome. But it gave little indication of what will follow. Khomeini was the glue that held together Iran's political radicals and religious extremists. Many Iranians fear that their country will now be torn asunder by bitter factional struggles. "All the people say things will be worse now," warned a 23-year-old student. "We were united when Khomeini was alive...
...from the streets, Deng appears to have reverted to a hoary Maoist maxim: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With devastating carnage, Deng proved he could unleash the firepower. But now that his regime is riding the military tiger, can it dismount without being torn to pieces...
...course, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- Dona Violeta to even the hardest-line members of Nicaragua's Sandinista government -- believes precisely the same thing. Otherwise she could not devote her life to a cause that has torn asunder her country, her family and her young girl's dreams of a happy life with a good man. Dona Violeta, 59, is president and publisher of Nicaragua's opposition daily La Prensa (circ. 50,000 to 75,000, depending on the availability of newsprint). Even more, she is a living reminder of what Nicaragua might have been had her husband Pedro Joaquin Chamorro...
Guns N' Roses put out an album called Appetite for Destruction, which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...
Harvard professors ignored us, complain disgruntled alumni. Students competed so much that our voices were drowned out, they continue; in the library volumes assigned for class, pages were torn out. Recent Harvard graduates are often not the best in the field, and what's worse is they think they are, the alumni assert...