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...announces that he will retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and the City Council. During his career, Duehay dealt with a variety of problems, including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960’s and the local housing tumult that followed the end of rent control...
...Class whose senior year ended with such tumult, the beginning of the Class of 1952 was unusually normal...
...kidnapping children en masse and cutting off their hands if they refused to murder their parents and join his anti-government militia. Imagine that the Swiss government had fallen and a warlord from Geneva was stopping United Nations food rations from reaching a starving people. And imagine that such tumult was unfolding against a backdrop of an incurable epidemic—one that had already infected one quarter of the entire European population...
...sonic landscape by half-blowing, half-buzzing into his horn. He simultaneously filtered and looped the sound with a mixer at his side and proceeded to solo over the resulting vamp. Initially captivating for its ingenuity, it decayed into a druggy, hellish stream of screaming guitars, strobing lights and tumult of menacing drums. It was an unsettling, visual and auditory apocalypse that left the audience puzzling as to how this fit into the band’s greater vision...
...contradicts Arafat’s claim to want peace. Nonetheless, Arafat is the only visible Palestinian leader who has any degree of legitimacy both with his people and with the West. If Sharon has his way and Arafat is expelled, Israel will fall prey to even greater violence and tumult during the Palestinian power struggle that would follow. And there’s no guarantee that Arafat’s replacement would be any more receptive to peace...