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...Yearbook staff has agreed to publish a Freshman Register for the Class of 1985, despite an earlier threat to cancel publication if the University did not find a new home for the Yearbook...
...unity and calm" that helped restore order and averted a threatened Soviet invasion. There followed a period of precarious tactical cooperation between the Cardinal and the Communist leader. Then, as always, Wyszynski's goal was to push for more freedom without precipitating retaliation by the Communists that would cancel his gains...
...will respond with compassion and understanding." No doubt many will. But no one can predict the response of the TV networks whose broadcasts King appears on, and the companies that sponsor tournaments she plays in or whose products she endorses. If they decide that she has been tainted and cancel her contracts, she could lose much of her standing in the tennis world and much of her income...
...against it. The book smolders with old indignations; yet there are notable flashpoints. From Herbert Woodward Martin's A Negro Soldier's Viet Nam Diary: "Do not celebrate me when and if I come home. I step around the smallest creature these days." From Poet Muriel Rukeyser: "Cancel war, we were taught./ What is left is peace. . . it is no canceling;/ The fierce and human peace is our deep power/ Born to us of wish and responsibility." Veteran Harrison Kohler recalls the excitement and intensity of his fighting days: "It is easy to look...
Hinckley "just seems to be someone who could get upset and angry enough about the political system to use a bullet to cancel out the ballot. A lot of people feel that way about the system. Including me," Manno wrote...