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...fearsome reputation mainly through its willingness to follow orders. Troopers are never based in their home provinces, in order to prevent the kind of personal involvement that might make them reluctant to use force. The 58,000-man Guardia Civil is part of the army and is under the command of an army general, but its basic function is police work...
...gene splicing may eventually be able to accomplish, the debate has become moot. Chief Justice Warren Burger himself acknowledged this when he declared, in the 1980 patent decision, that no one will be able to "deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides." What both the public and scientists can do is to ensure that this insatiable inquisitiveness is channeled to serve the common good. So far, the proud record of gene splicers seems to bear out the hope that it will...
...fall on Hugon's shoulders invoice preparation for home meets. After volunteering several hours each week for the preliminaries, the easygoing manager then spends alternate Saturdays nursing Blodgett Pool's sensitive timing system through the meets. Already a pool legend for getting the very temperamental device to function on command, Hugon often responds to pleas to perform his magic during women's meets, intramural contests, and Masters competitions...
...South African command insists that it is succeeding in its drive to "win the hearts and minds" of the Namibian people. The claim is a sardonic reminder of Viet Nam, and, indeed, the parallels in this war do not stop there. The 20,000 troops of the South African Defense Force (SADF) vastly outnumber the 8,000-odd SWAPO guerrillas. The SWAPO forces, armed with Soviet-made rifles and light artillery, are no match for the mechanized, often airborne South African troops. And, like the Cambodia-based Viet Cong a decade ago, SWAPO conducts its raids from sanctuaries-this time...
...skill," says the National Theater's Peter Hall, who directed Amadeus. "He's an original," says Trevor Nunn of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "He has a strong and complex intelligence, and he can't really be compared with anybody." Although he has the stature and the command of theatrical grandeur associated with the Olivier generation, McKellen also has something more contemporary, more recognizably his own. It is a sort of granite center, a moral core that harks back to his Cambridge teacher, the great critic F.R. Leavis, and that is regenerated by the actor's continual...