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...surprised that they do continue to listen, when I have absolutely nothing to show for asking them to be restrained, for saying it is possible that a more just society will come about, with a minimum of violence. I mean, it's all rhetoric. Can you imagine President Reagan speaking with the same equanimity if the fatalities here were white? Over 500 people have been killed. Virtually every day of the week someone gets killed...
...promote his boycott, Chavez has traveled from Los Angeles to Boston, picking up endorsements from such prominent politicians as Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Paul Simon of Illinois. Chavez thinks that if he can get 6% of the population to stop eating grapes, growers will be forced to listen to his union's complaints. ACQUISITIONS Old Profession, New Offering...
Keillor was raised in Anoka, Minn., a town of about 15,000 that is now a suburb of Minneapolis but was not then. As far as he knows, Anoka people do not see caricatures of themselves in Lake Wobegon's sound burghers, possibly, he thinks, because they do not listen to his show, which suggests that they are like Lake Wobegonians, who would be the last people in the world to listen to A Prairie Home Companion. So he says. The small town of Isle, Minn., on a lake called Mille Lacs, suggested some of the physical characteristics of Lake...
...Sundays. The Keillors did not shun the world rigidly, however, as some Brethren do, and their children were allowed to play with neighborhood children outside the faith. Gary was a quiet boy, recalls his father John, a retired postal worker. The elder Keillors, who now live in Orlando, listen to the program, recognize the germs of a few stories and think that "some of it's good and some...
...help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session, says GACA director Ginger Grossman, they have lobbied for more improvements, backed by the clout of Florida's senior-voter turnout, as high as 75%. "Politicians here still think they don't need to listen to children," says Grossman, 86. "But they do need to listen...