Eric B. Fried

The Road Not Taken

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R OCKS ROAD is a quiet residential street running off Route 1, the main road through the small New Hampshire

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America is a land of invention, with a long tradition of the pioneer spirit of doing-it-yourself. Nowhere is this creative

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B Y NOW, the signs that the United States is undergoing a vast social transition have become clear enough that

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It's 3 a.m. in Boston. Cold, dark, lonely. But some people are awake, unable to sleep, or depressed, or maybe

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They sit inconspicuously at the corner of Walker and Shepard Streets, just across from the Quad, two low-slung brick buildings.

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Christmas. The day He was born. Santa Claus. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward people, spend money. Want to drown out

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Two young members of China's Red Guards sit in a self-consciously pretentious coffeehouse in Peking. Between sips of espresso, down

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T HE POLITICAL LEFT has been in steady retreat for almost a decade now. Ever since Nixon took his massacre

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S OMETIME LAST YEAR Derek Bok decided to take the offensive. After all, why should those noisy radicals from the

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T OMORROW THE U.S. anti-nuclear movement takes its case to Washington D.C. A huge demonstration and a public trial of