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...contemptible, and the Viet Nam War "worse than futile": "The Navy men killed in the river war meant a proportionately greater saving of lives for the Army and the accelerated pacification of the delta. But all that was accomplished for nothing, so all these soldiers and sailors died in vain." Bitter truth does not come easily to him; the Naval Academy did not teach no-win decision making...
...been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail. It is as if America, so vain and self-consciously fit, has looked upon itself and suddenly seen the hideously consumptive portrait of Dorian Gray...
About 40 people waited in vain on the curb ofKirkland St. in back of Memorial Hall in anattempt to catch a glimpse of the Prince as hiscar pulled up to the 350th dinner there. Charlesexited from the grey Rolls Royce and was ushereddirectly onto the steps of the building...
...says Marine Biologist Tamra Faris of the National Marine Fisheries Service. On her last flight over the lake in mid-July, Faris counted seven harbor porpoises and three Dall's porpoises; last week the porpoises could be seen cruising back and forth along the glacial dam, searching in vain for a passage back...
...City Lights took more than two years to complete, as the director shot endless retakes and stopped filming for weeks at a time while he sought inspiration. For one important scene, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp first meets the blind flower seller, he shoots for weeks, groping in vain for a way to convey a crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea: a limousine door slams shut, and the girl assumes...