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Martin's visit is a fait accompli. The damage has been done. Black students have already been barraged with misrepresentations of what the Jewish people and ethical tradition have to offer them. Since Kristen Clarke was the one who presented Martin, a certain amount of damage has been done to her credibility and the trust between her and the Jewish community...
Today happens to be the deadline for the fourth paper i managed to craft during these High Holy days of intellectual skullduggery. Seven pages, 10 pages, 10 pages, 10 pages plus. Nevermind the fait accompli! i've communed with the Great Ones (Plato, Thomas Mann, Nietzsche, etc.) and i (fortunately?) live to tell the tale. Ad nauseum? No, perchance the limits of space conspire with time (consider us both lucky...
...hearing on television from QVC's West Chester, Pennsylvania, offices, said he was "delighted" with the ruling. "Obviously he's very happy," said designer Diane von Furstenberg, a confidant. Yet neither she nor Diller was ready to declare final victory in the Paramount struggle. "Nothing is ever a fait accompli in life," Von Furstenberg said. "Only the future will tell. But so far, so good...
Among those whom Ovitz's arrangement with Credit Lyonnais took by surprise was Alan Ladd Jr., the chairman of the bank's MGM studio. "By the time the bank told me about the deal," Ladd says, "it was a fait accompli." He seems tentative about the whole thing. "I don't think MGM is for sale at this time." However, CAA sources confirm that Ovitz is indeed out to find a buyer...
...Harvard squash team's season is a fait accompli--and a pretty good one, at that: Another double national championship, even if the men's title was a bit tainted...