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...last person to see Carter alive, it seems, was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. As night fell, Carter turned up unannounced at her home to vent his troubles. Still recovering from her husband's death three months earlier, she was in little condition to offer counsel. They parted at about...
Though the U.S. steps are designed to rob Castro of a safety vent to defuse unrest in his country, the number of Cubans taking to the sea did not immediately diminish in the wake of Clinton's pronouncements. On Friday, about 575 refugees arrived; Saturday brought another 861. Moreover, the President's stiffened economic sanctions will only increase the tensions that send Cubans dashing toward the beaches in the first place. At the same time, Castro's castaways must now swallow a humiliating demotion in status. The waning of superpower rivalry has weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political...
...going to be a long time before things get back to normal around here," said city councilman Jack Henderson of Newton as he steered a boat through the town's / streets. The Rivertrace Restaurant and Oyster Bar was gone altogether, and the only sign of city hall was a vent pipe protruding from the water like a periscope...
Criticism of Take Back the Night is nothing new. There have always been irate articles and editorials against it even at times the dismissal of TBTN as nothing more than a bunch of frustrated woman attenpting to vent their own anger on a "patriarchal" society. Yet those three men who marched up to the microphone were not doing so to generate debate, but to broadcast their own agenda. And it was neither the time--nor the place--for them to air their opinions...
...only does the staff vent unwarranted concerns over these common, ethical fundraising strategies, but it entirely misses the fundamental principle behind the gift...