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...sees the individual foci of his activities in a larger context of "margination"--"People being marginal, useless to the system. The campesinos in El Salvador who are being gunned down because they want to structure their society in a way that will help them out, or the people on the streets of Boston, or the women who end up without support in raising their children, or the children who get killed in the process of abortion--one thing they share in common is that the people in power in this society have decided they're not as valuable as other...
...disturbances in the heart's rhythm. These are most likely to occur in the first minutes or hours after the attack, caused by irregularities in the flow of electrical signals that control the beat of the heart. The heartbeat may develop abnormal rhythms and degenerate into a useless twitching or quivering. No longer is the heart able to drive blood through the body. Cardiac arrest ensues...
...these observations lack the polish of La Rochefoucauld or Stendhal, they serve the author's high purpose. Singled Out is not, after all, a pillow book. It is a guide for the perplexed, who are warned away from useless rage and grief, and humanely advised to "behave with a certain kindness, civility and tact, to ease one another's passage through this changeable and occasionally brutal world." Such counsel may not be quoted in the Playboy Philosophy, but it ought to be singled out for inclusion with every marriage license - and separation paper...
Denying the student's claim, Krasznekewicz said that eye contact during the lottery would have been both futile and useless...
Distrust and hostility have been reinforced by concrete evidence of North Korean provocations, so you cannot blame the people for distrusting the North Koreans-and I suppose they do not look upon us kindly. It is useless to talk to anybody other than Kim II Sung, so he and I must meet and begin a dialogue. Let us talk first of the relatively easy problems, so as to build up gradually an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence. We should persevere through this effort to begin the dialogue, which could make peace a little more secure, a little less precarious...