Word: antagonists
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...train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...meantime, Lewis has recruited sometime-antagonist Marco B. Simons '97, chair of the Undergraduate Council's Student Affairs Committee, to help him ferret out the source of the leak...
...poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles the model he prescribed, with a powerful federal government and a national economy, than it does the decentralized republic of small farmers recommended by Jefferson...
...promote sweeping change. The real significance of Hashimoto's arrival as Prime Minister is not that he brings a new style but that his elevation sets up a first in Japan: a battle between a savvy, dynamic defender of the status quo and an equally dynamic and hardheaded antagonist of the status...
Earlier in the day, Senators questioned former White House attorney Neil Eggleston and top Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey about Eggleston's attempt to share with Lindsey confidential documents concerning the Whitewater investigation. Those materials detailed a Small Business Administration criminal investigation of Clinton antagonist David Hale, an Arkansas judge; impeding the probe in any way would have been illegal. Investigators reviewed Eggleston's phone records, which indicate he left a message for Lindsey offering to brief him on the SBA papers. Lindsey was handling Whitewater press inquiries for the White House. But while Eggleston maintained that doing so would...