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...coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens who demonstrated outside the presidential palace after the report's release definitely wanted...
...Chris notes, "nobody bugs us, the phone doesn't ring, and we're only 20 feet from the motel bar." Strewn about the room are a globe, dozens of reference books and more than a few glasses of beer. In their rumpled clothes and their mood of heroic distraction, the young moguls look like harried grad students the night before finals...
...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan
...Gallico III of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriners Burns Institute, both in Boston, and head of the team that treated the brothers: "These boys had no other hope for survival, so we agreed to try." That the experimental treatment could even be attempted is a tribute to the heroic efforts of the emergency room at Memorial Hospital of Natrona County, Wyo., where the children were rushed after the accident. The hospital staff labored over the youngsters for four hours, maintaining their breathing and starting replacement fluids and chemicals to keep them from going into shock. That night the boys...
...Nobody was indifferent to Margaret Mead. She was loving, scolding, ebullient, irksome, heroic, and at times vindictive. Like most great characters, she was inconsistent. As a young girl she acted like an old lady, and as one of the fabled elders of this century she could be a coquette and even, as one of her friends said, 'a brat.' What made her unique was her energy and her ability to make the most of everything, even hurricanes, volcanoes and fractured bones. Because she was so chronically excited, she was exciting, and the excitement was contagious." -Margaret Mead...