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...That sentiment was echoed by a recent posting on the WELL. "I didn't get to pop some 'shrooms and dance naked in a park with several hundred of my peers," wrote a cyberpunk wannabe who calls himself Alien. "To me, and to a lot of other generally disenfranchised members of my generation, surfing the edges...
...district attorney and at least 52 candidates for mayor. Yet in the streets the frustration and despair that helped trigger last year's violence show little change. "People are anxious about these trials," says Karen Bass, director of a substance-abuse center with headquarters in South Central. "There is sentiment that the lid could blow off again because people don't feel that their concerns are being addressed. No one wants to see the same thing happen again, but it is a real possibility. People don't know what to expect." In a recent poll by CBS News...
Riina's errors were all the more damaging because of a hardening public sentiment toward corruption. Unlike the U.S. Mafia, which makes most of its money through criminal activities like drug smuggling, loan-sharking, prostitution and gambling, the Italian Mob has gained most of its income by siphoning off public funds through rigged contracts, faked repairs and padded expenses for government projects...
HOLLYWOOD, THAT HOTBED OF LIBERALISM, HAS VOICED PLENty of humane sentiment over the plight of inner-city Los Angeles residents since last year's riots. But at least three major studios -- Disney, Universal and Fox -- do not recognize MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. Says a spokesman for MCA, the parent company of Universal: "This corporation has made the decision that Martin Luther King Day is not a holiday...
...then, at the end, she delivers a direct hit to the heart. Colvin has already shown us how much she knows, so the naked sentiment of I Don't Know Why startles: "I don't know why/ The sky is so blue/ And I don't know why/ I'm so in love with you." The tune's long notes suggest a cathedral dirge, but in the purity of Colvin's voice you'll hear an affirmation of hope against reason, a declaration of faith in the unknown. It is the boldness of a heart that has lived in dark...