Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimal experience in journalism, but plenty in political activism: Ruhe, 39, was twice arrested for civil rights protests in the 1960s, while Geissler, 37, spent almost a year in federal prison for refusing to be drafted during the Viet Nam War. Both had been publicists for the little-known Bahá'i faith, a Unitarian religion, founded 120 years ago in what is now Iraq, that claims 3 million followers. Furthermore, the two Nashville businessmen admittedly had little wealth, but refused to discuss the financing of their purchase of U.P.I. Insisted Ruhe at the time: "No one is behind...
Computers! Bah! But you have made me see the printout on the wall. I will have to learn to use the contraptions...
...labeled a "jobs bill" is casting himself as Ebenezer Scrooge. Or so believe many Representatives and Senators who are scrambling to push supposed job-creating measures through the lameduck session of Congress that is scheduled to end this week, while simultaneously growling to themselves the equivalent of "bah, humbug!" A startling number confess to the deepest skepticism that any of the bills would actually create a significant number of jobs any time soon...
Although it may be presumptuous of me, a lowly, probably stupid cheerleader, to criticize so intellectual a person as the President of The Harvard Crimson, I feel compelled to comment on Paul M. Barrett's recent flight of fancy entitled "Sis-Boom-Bah." Like Mr. Barrett, I bemoan the loss of many fine Harvard traditions. However, I am less dismayed over that decrease in "final club snobbery" than over the collapse of the old mainstay of journalism--accuracy. Call me old-fashioned and reactionary, but I long for a return to the ancient "VERITAS" standards...