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...feel it in the pessimism and snarliness of my Russian friends. Only two other events in this century, World War I and World War II, have had an impact comparable to that of the Second Russian Revolution. In each of those earlier cases, our side's victory left a vacuum soon filled by new villains with big, bad ideas that made another global showdown inevitable...
...times, many say, it seems as though the groups exist in a vacuum. "I don't see any interaction between the various communities," says, Zaheer R. Ali '94, who is vice president...
...government have become increasingly irrelevant as the republics fill the political vacuum created by the failed hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August...
...five years," says educator David Flores, a gang expert who runs special school programs, "the Crips and Bloods will cease to be a serious problem there." Perhaps. But Sergeant Wes McBride, a gang expert with the sheriff's department, predicts that "Hispanic Bloods and Crips" may soon fill the vacuum left by the departing black gang members. On Southern California's mean streets, faces change, but the conditions that breed gangs have...
...when approached with the problems facing individual houses, Millett's surprising response was "I am not privy to the manner in which housing is distributed." She claims that internal problems must be dealt with among the houses themselves. With such an administrative vacuum, it's no wonder some houses find themselves victims of the "Big Plan...