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...Fences, is more actor than writer; he knows how to put some spin on the standard bio. "Not knowin' nothin' about a lot of stuff, that's me," he says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything I did. Music was the one thing I felt proud of"); his first encounter with Sandy Mahl, whom he would marry in 1986 (Brooks was a bouncer in a club. She threw a punch that went through...
Such alcohol abuse is already a serious problem on campus. Anyone who has stood in Harvard Yard on a Saturday night as sirens blared and overindulgent students headed to University Health Services knows that Harvard's alcohol policy is long overdue for revision. A more uniform and clear policy of enforcing drinking regulations--as mandated by the new law--will be a welcome change. But too strict an interpretation of the federal government's law will create problems for the University as severe as those the law is trying to solve...
...question is whether that re-evaluation will be any more productive than prior Pentagon brainstorming. There is no question that the U.S. is well armed. The Reagan-Bush buildup has produced 2.1 million highly trained men and women in uniform, a 549-ship Navy and an Air Force of 2,600 planes. But these muscular formations are of little use if they cannot arrive quickly where they are needed. The embarrassing fact is that the Pentagon was not ready to fight even the war it was supposed to be preparing for. One revelation delivered by the long, slow sea-lanes...
...dressed in a natty business suit, not a military uniform. He smiled and tousled the hair of a young boy named Stuart Lockwood, asking him what he had eaten for breakfast (cornflakes and milk) and marveling at how the lad fared better than some Iraqi children. Talking cheerfully to a tense group of British hostages, he presented himself as a benign and misunderstood leader who had no choice but to act truculently...
...know I am a bargaining chip," says Ibrahim Bazi, 27, a Hizballah recruit from the town of Bint Jebeil. Like all the other prisoners, his black hair is cropped short and he wears a dark blue uniform and plastic slippers. His unshaven face reveals little emotion. "My only hope is that all hostages will be released and that I will be part of the deal...