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...basket case. The Yugoslav mess is one reason some former hawks have become born-again doves. They have lost their interest in promoting democracy. They look at the postcommunist world and see that the most common cause of war is nationalist hatred -- which democracy, far from suppressing, actually gives vent...
...world of moral complexity and invites the audience to share her nostalgia for the days when everyone seemed alike -- not, she adds, that she has any prejudices. This overwrought, distasteful monologue consistently brings shouted agreement and applause. Of course, Tolins is having it both ways: in allowing straights to vent a tacit wishing-away of gays, he validates his fears of a gene-engineered apocalypse...
...vent located directly above the two bathroomstalls is covered with a gray, soot-like filth. Asimilar substance can be found in gratesthroughout the police department...
...sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere," says Dr. Allwyn Levine, a New Jersey psychiatrist. "We've become a much more lawless society...
Most people vent their annoyance simply by making lawyers the laughingstock of the white-collar class. Long after jokes about minorities have become socially unacceptable, mockery of lawyers remains a safe prejudice. Sample: What do lawyers and sperm have in common? Both have a one-in-a-million chance of turning out human. Another: Why did the post office recall its lawyer stamp? Answer: Because people didn't know which side to spit...