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...Harvard recruited me as a pitcher, but when I first came here I was hoping to play in the field too," the 21-year-old Stewart says. "But I've only been to the plate once in a Harvard uniform...
...examine the world of adults with studied innocence. His voice has a contemptible condescending tone that nonetheless seduces us. His high-pitched screams that break glass--art as a destructive protest--ring with the desperate tremor of a genius creating a master-piece. Bennent is terrifying in a Nazi uniform yet his cherubic smile is almost Christ-like in its beneficence. His Aryan forcefulness and unceasing intensity combine with a demonic sensuality that brings to mind images of a tiny Adolph Hitler...
...stability and economic growth. On the European continent the U.S. deploys more than 200,000 troops. By comparison, Britain has 55,000 troops stationed outside of its territory, Belgium 25,000, The Netherlands 8,620 and France 34,000. Though West Germany has 495,000 men and women in uniform, none serve outside the Federal Republic...
...course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed...
Sentencing. The present system is based on the now discredited theory that prisons rehabilitate; criminals are given lengthy terms, but routinely receive parole. The Senate bill calls for more uniform, realistic sentences and the elimination of early parole; the House proposal retains parole. Advocates of the Senate version argue that continuance of parole would undermine the reform effort; knowing that terms can be cut short, judges will continue to give unrealistically long sentences. The Senate bill would also allow both the Government and defendants to appeal sentences in certain circumstances. The House measure would allow this only for defendants...