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...villages hit just three days earlier. This time five Afghan refugees were killed, and eight others injured. The attack seemed to mock the angry diplomatic note of protest issued just one day earlier by the Pakistani government. It demanded that the regime in Kabul "desist from these barbarous and wanton attacks on defenseless civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Hot Pursuit | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...WHAT NEXT! What next!" Austin was jumping up and down in destructive glee, a two-inch, 27 ounce steel chrome sizing ball oscillating dangerously in his sweaty palm. All around him in a happy cornucopia of wanton destruction lay the mangled, twisted remains of a tin of cookies, a beer can, a memo board, a squash racket, a small toaster oven and the Sunday Times...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...been for awhile. Kept within limits, wanton violence is a healthy and useful alternative study break. It exercises the body and clears the mind. Correctly applied, violence satisfies the primal needs of almost every form of homo academicus. Are you a budding Marxist? Destruction rids your suite of useless capitalist acquisitions...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Study Breaking | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

...that would be dull. But it should at least know what it wants. In the '70s the government was telling us to drive safely and save fuel--now they seem to want wastefulness and wanton destruction. I think they must have gotten their domestic and Central American policies mixed...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...when he seemed to hear a child's singsong voice chanting "Tolle lege, tolle lege" (Take up and read, take up and read). Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow of doubt vanished." From that moment on, he was a zealous Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Second Founder of the Faith | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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