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...angry Protestants, warned that the government would not allow "private armies" to take over from the police and the army. But during the Newtownards rally, British troops were conspicuously absent and the police kept discreetly to side streets, leading to concern that the government would not be able to contain the "third force...
...sensitive ears are precisely tuned to discern the scrabble of paws beneath the ground. It even has its own self-cleaning service: cat saliva may contain a deodorizing detergent-like substance. Asleep, a cat may resemble a throw pillow or a Kliban-style meatloaf, but, awake and hungry, the average feline, one of the most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grâce. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism...
...Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their own weight into patterns of force and submission, autocracy and abjectness. If the future is forever dark and fogbound, negotiation can sometimes fill the landscapes with better shapes and paths than they would otherwise contain...
...essence of biography is selectiveness; even the most uneventful lives contain enough to fill a library. In this case, the tendancy toward inclusiveness results in a 750-page tome which, we are assured on the dust jacket, is merely the first volume...
...most of the first half, however, the squad was able to contain the Minutemen's 6-ft., 3-in. center Marsha Ready, holding her to a handful of points while building an early ten-point lead. But Harvard did not maintain pressure on the UMass frontline and the Minutemen crept back to within six at the half...