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That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
Hardly anyone managed to see these signs, however, since they were so quickly removed. A member of our group actually saw a male undergraduate disposing of one sign in the trash. This individual is, furthermore, a member of the Harvard-Israel Public Affairs Committee (HIPAC), and while COP accepts HIPAC's statement that his act was not official group policy, the question remains as to why he felt compelled to do what...
...night when Todd Chimura was 15, his 13-year-old girlfriend was strangled in a Seattle park. "After that," Chimura, now 22, recalls sadly, "I stayed , drunk for about five years." He took his meals at a city trash container and rotated in and out of county medical clinics. But sooner or later he would stop taking his medicine, get drunk and wake up strapped down in a hospital bed. After his sixth trip to a state mental institution, caseworkers sent him to the El Rey Treatment Facility...
...through mail solicitations. Third-class mail is now a nearly 4 million-ton colossus that accounts for 39% of all U.S. postal volume. This year about 41 lbs. of junk mail have been generated for each adult American. Of the pile that reached mailboxes, an estimated 44% landed in trash cans, unopened and unread. Many of the rejects were "prospecting letters," mailings that fish for new clients and often hook only a 2% response -- plenty, by industry standards, to justify the flow...
...fine day in 1972, an assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts drove to the city dump in Rockland, Mass., took 14 bulky typescripts out of his car and heaved them as far as he could into the trash. "I waited till the bulldozer came by and buried them," said George V. Higgins recently, recalling the scene with satisfaction. "And then I left...