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...good weather I ride a bike for the mile-and-a-half trip through Cambridge to Harvard Square; when it's cold I either take a cab or walk. I enjoy walking and feel safer walking alone in the winter. When I'm wearing my old, bulky down jacket and stocking cap, my form disguised, I feel unprovocative...
...waiting for God. The Bible says, 'To you I will give this land, to you and to your seed, afterward to the end of time.'" Her blue eyes blazing, Miriam Levinger, incongruously clad in an army fatigue jacket, blue skirt and blue bedroom slippers, stood outside the former Hadassah clinic in the old Jewish quarter of Hebron. Behind her, in a stone building surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by Israeli soldiers, Jewish women who joined Mrs. Levinger in her "occupation" of the building nearly a year ago hung up laundry under the basement arches...
...some residents are equally vociferous in support of nuclear power. "Cowards making a big deal over a little accident," is how a burly fellow who identified himself only as Pete described the antinuclear people. Pete reinforced his views by removing his jacket; on his bright red T shirt was a representation of the famous cooling towers and the words "T.M.I. Staff -We Stayed BEHIND . . . to save yours...
Negotiations between the Colombians and the guerrillas were carried on inside a cream-colored van parked in front of the embassy's main gate. Last week two officials of the Colombian Foreign Ministry met inside the truck with one of the guerrilla women, who was wearing a jogging jacket, jeans and a woolen mask over her face. She was accompanied by Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Galan, representing the prisoners. All three men, with Latin chivalry, gallantly stood aside to allow the hooded woman to enter first. After two hours and 20 minutes of secret talks, there were signs of some progress...
...roulette, which was supposedly invented by Philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1655. A crooked croupier merely palms a $100 chip or two from the stacks of losers' chips that he rakes to the side of the roulette layout after each turn of the wheel. Since the croupiers' dinner jacket pockets are traditionally stitched shut to prevent just such finagling, nimble-fingered dealers tuck stolen chips inside their shirts or cuffs...