Word: seemed
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...roads to peace remain open. The rebels seem prepared to take either one. "There is still time to negotiate and prevent more bloodshed," says F.M.L.N. representative Salvador Cortez. "But if the government remains stubborn in its refusal to negotiate in good faith, then we are prepared to continue until the end." Peace talks are scheduled to resume in Caracas on Nov. 21. Government representatives vow to be there; the rebels have said they will not attend. The U.S. is urging them to return to the negotiating table. The governments of Central America should lend their voices to that call. Otherwise...
...another idea, called the cold dark matter theory, has gathered more support. This theory postulates an as yet undiscovered form of exotic subatomic particle that pervades the universe. The presence of this mysterious "dark matter" could explain why most galaxies -- including our Milky Way -- seem, judging from measurements of gravitational forces, to contain about ten times as much invisible matter as they do visible stars, gas and dust. The existence of dark matter is needed to fill the gaps in some of the Grand Unified Theories that physicists have concocted to account for the fundamental structure of matter and energy...
Nonetheless, Administration officials confide that so far as they are aware, Bush is doing only tactical planning, concentrating on getting through the summit without a major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What...
...doesn't resonate like Knute Rockne or George Gipp, men around whom the legend of Notre Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the Fighting Irish. Nor does it seem of sufficient luster to be mentioned in the same sentence with Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, coaches who won multiple national championships and were subsequently canonized by fanatic subway alumni. Holtz would be the first to agree with all this. "All I ever wanted was a job in the mill...
POSSIBLE German resentment toward the post-war settlement raises other troubling questions. Will East Germans once again look for scapegoats for the disastrous state of their economy? Will West Germany encourage their cousins' potential desires for revenge? More importantly, are Germans as committed to democratic principles as they seem, or are they merely using democratic rhetoric as an excuse to reunify and regain Germany's place...