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Life and death coexist with a unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...China and, to a lesser extent, South Korea, marches and demonstrations are among the few ways students have to make their voices heard. Says Kim Young Sam, a South Korean opposition leader: "If politics were functioning properly, there would be no need for the students to take to the streets." Observes a Peking graduate student: "There are inherent affinities among youth in various countries -- idealism, impatience and untempered courage. Chinese students thought that those traits could be channeled to promote changes...
...Columbia has released Rockin', in an effort not only to sum up all these facets of Edmunds' career, but to do so with a "live" recording, a la Bruce Springsteen, Edmunds' labelmate and fellow retro-rocker. Of course, since Edmunds is a lesser star, Columbia has allotted him only one disc instead of five to encapsulate his long career, but surely the idea is the same...
...lesser-known Crimson swimmers to shine--namely
...curious and often comical characters. He is gratified by his friendships with the famous and the powerful, and in his office in New York City there are prominently displayed pictures of himself with Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Pope Paul VI. At Christmas in Marbella, a gaggle of lesser European royalty partook of "A.K.'s" hospitality. Among them was Count Jaime de Mora y Aragon, the brother of the Queen of Belgium, a rakish fellow with a monocle and a waxed mustache who comes across as a blue-blooded Salvador Dali...