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...occasion. Sometimes the crowds were gloatingly pro-American as the nation's athletes collected an overachieving 83 gold medals. There was a certain smugly triumphal mood in the stands that replicated the atmosphere of a Reagan campaign rally. At both events, young Americans broke into an overbearing victory chant: "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" But the Games also frequently achieved something close to perfection: athletes utterly inhabiting the instant of the act--driving chariots of fire...
...Undeterred, Walesa, Lis, about 100 supporters and some foreign newsmen elbowed their way through. Regrouping, the police kept the main body of the demonstrators from advancing. A little farther down the street, the Walesa group pushed through a second police line as the rest of the demonstrators began to chant, "Solidarnosc! . . . Solidarnosc!" By then, Walesa had encountered a third group of police, this time elite ZOMO riot cops; helmeted and armed with batons and shields, the troopers stood several rows deep. Walesa stopped and, dropping his bouquet to the ground, muttered, "Do what you want with this." A riot policeman...
Dartmouth Indians have also criticized the continued use of the school's Indian imitation war chant that goes "Wahoo...
...chants used by the coalition of minority students in their November 7 rally was offensive to the Harvard Extension School. The chant went something like. "We won't go to the Extension School" (to take advantage of some excellent courses in Afro-American Studies) because it is a "back door" to the University. We object to this negative attitude towards Extension because we are very proud of the Extension School's very diverse course offerings and especially because of the University's open enrollment policy into the Extension School...
Almost as fast as the newcomers arrive, others depart. Each day in Quiha, grieving parents wrap the bodies of their children in burlap parcels tied with string and carry them to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the neighboring village. There, as priests under bright umbrellas chant ageless prayers, the tiny bodies are placed in a long trench. And each dusk in Bati, when the sun burns red and fierce, four men carry bodies from the house of the dead up a steep hill to their common grave. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by James Wilde/Bati, with other bureaus