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Nasrallah Sfeir, the patriarch of Lebanon's Maronites, the country's largest Christian group, pleaded in vain for the factions to stop fighting. "This is suicide," he lamented...
South Africa's 5 million whites have gradually resigned themselves to the fact that they cannot continue forever to dominate 26 million blacks politically, economically and socially. Blacks, who have fought so ineffectually for almost 80 years, have come to feel that their long struggle has not been in vain. In the climate of flexibility fostered by the reform-minded government of State President F.W. de Klerk, the vast majority of South Africans expect a new kind of country to emerge. But the races are still far, far apart on what kind of country that will...
History repeatedly warns us that human character cannot be scrubbed free of its defects through vain attempts to regulate inanimate objects such as guns. What has worked in the past, and what we see working now, are tough, N.R.A.-supported measures that punish the incorrigible minority who place themselves outside...
...people -- whose name was so often taken in vain by their rulers -- longed for a leader with verve and vision, someone who would represent their pride rather than their shame. There was, therefore, a national murmur of interest in 1979, when the country got its first look at Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev at a televised awards ceremony. Not only did this new Central Committee Secretary, then 48, seem at ease among the ruling septuagenarians; he was the only one able to say thank you for his medal without reading from a 3-by-5 card...
...sleep with Prudence, and Mrs. Charlotte Wallace (Magda Hernandez), Bruce's analyst, is too busy searching for cookies to listen to his problems. Bruce runs to Prudence, Prudence runs from Bob, Charlotte runs after both of them, and everyone runs from Dr. Framingham. It's all in vain, however; the characters are doomed to meet up in the same "existential restaurant" in which Bruce and Prudence had their first encounter...