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With little else to do, many have turned to random -- and racially motivated -- violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes motivated by hatred of foreigners in 1991, vs. only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...
Victories against strange opponents were not always a given, though. Apparently Stahl had an attraction to scheduling basketball games against random organizations...
...Fields, I would venture to say that there are also students on campus who were similarly unaware of The Crimson's "Dealing With Difference" piece: That, too, is a shame, but it is not cause to belittle the content or the significance of your article; nor would a random student's revelation of his or her ignorance of the piece necessarily deserve attention...
Students receiving the scholarship are pleased but add that the decisions are not always clear cut. "It's a fairly random process," said Strovink. "A lot of other people could have...
...that really matters. If Russia wants to emulate the economic successes of the United States (or even of Rumania) it should move away from the Chilean corporatist model. The free market, to function well, must be free for all, not just for a select few big businesses chosen at random by bribed bureaucrats...