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...what is most distinctive about the council this year is how its College policy-making efforts mirror the serious, often unrecognized community service work, officials...
...close tents and stifling bunkers, young men who hope, because they are lance corporals and gunnery sergeants, that they are above whimpering. The 1982 high school graduate from Pontiac, Mich., writing a letter home ("Don't worry, really!"), shakes his dried-up Bic. An infantryman with a tiny mirror, still not used to the G.I. buzz cut, stares at himself. A lieutenant from Live Oak, Fla., peeks nervously over the sandbag ramparts and wonders about the alien landscape. A private forks out the last globs of mushy tinned meat and then, dog-tired from worrying about mortar rounds...
Television taboos are made to be broken. Violating them is a venerated tradition, a familiar ritual preceded by elaborate puffery: solemn sermons or titillating teasers aimed at increasing curiosity and ratings. Though often a mindless come-on rather than a thoughtful coming out, the "breakthrough" can sometimes mirror changing cultural mores and set the stage for bolder TV sequels...
...advertising rate 10%. The "Howard" in the name of the chain belonged to the late Roy Howard, who once set America on fire by wrongly filing, on Nov. 7, 1918, the end of World War I. Armistice came four days later. Howard was a small man who kept a mirror in his office, in front of which he would invite people of comparable size to stand beside him to prove he was not so little after all. The Scripps-Howard motto, under Howard and today, is "Give light and the people will find their own way." Next to the motto...
Spain left definitive marks on Orwell's character; all the political writing he did after escaping the civil war was sharpened by his keen sense of betrayal. He had seen the future, and it worked far too well; the world was being staked out by mirror-image tyrannies equally ruthless in stamping out the individual. The workers in Barcelona had been punished by the Communists for the crime of being unorthodox; they became, until suppressed, a more important enemy than Franco...