Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road that leads to Gaza, a gaudily lettered arch greets travelers with the word WELCOME. But the sights hardly beckon. Watchful Israeli soldiers stand guard as men in gallabiyas ply the road on two-wheeled donkey carts and women in white gauze veils trail their robes through the dust. Melons are sold amid reeking garbage. Rusting wreckage litters the roadsides. The stench of rot and waste is unescapable. Gaza looks like what it is: the last refuge of the dispossessed...
...wasn't so much that he smoked marijuana that ended Ginsburg's high court hopes. He has nothing to be ashamed about on that count. But he was the darling of an Administration that has waged, rhetorically, at least, an hysterical war against drugs. And he was touted by arch conservatives as the savior in the war against law-breaking--and marijuana, you'll remember, still is an illegal substance. Those conservatives were the very ones who ultimately did in Ginsburg's nomination...
...they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...
Harvard's first game was against Ivy arch-nemesis Brown. Last year, the Bruins beat the aquamen twice. But Harvard held tight from the opening whistle, and Brown had but a one-goal lead, 3-2, at the half...
...shirts" in the '60s. (Presumably because he was too busy screwing up in law school.) Now an adviser, probably Pat Caddell, is saying that Biden's latest troubles will "free" him to "get into being himself." The new self is an aggressive "populist, anti-Establishment" candidate and arch-defender of the middle class. Who knows? Maybe he'll bounce back, stay in and run a strong race. If he does, I have some hot George Wallace speeches he might be interested...