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...that only the threat of American deaths will arouse American concern; El Salvador seems a case in point. Four dead Yankee Catholics and everyone noticed. "Military advisers," a phrase that sounded like Vietnam, and everyone noticed. "No Draft, No War, U.S. Out of El Salvador" was the most popular chant during Harvard's mid-March demonstration, perhaps for more than its pleasing rhyme scheme...
...third Ali-Frazier fight, where all the good people wanted Ali to win and all the bad people rooted for Frazier. It was that simple. There was more noise in that building than I had ever heard before, or have ever heard since. Twenty thousand sang the chant in the Garden that night--"Ali, Ali, Ali"--and they were joined by at least 20 million more around the world...
...group and publishing a newspaper opposed to the dictatorship of John Metaxas. The next year Papandreou fled to the U.S., where he earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, became an American citizen, served in the Navy as a medical assistant and married his current wife, Chicago-born Margaret Chant. (They have since had four children.) Only in 1963, when his father, soon to become Prime Minister, persuaded Andreas to move back to his native land, did the younger Papandreou plunge into Greek politics. His father may have regretted the decision. Andreas' radical stands, including his opposition...
...worked in concert as a 12-minute finale; but on the record it drags. A no-holds-barred rock-and-roll opening gives way to a meditative break, as Jeffreys talks of how his father beat him up. "I hated those days," he needlessly comments. The fans (with prompting) chant "Wanna give to you, my body and soul", and then the uptempo returns and Jeffreys declares "Nobody can hit me now, nobody can touch...
...answer, the guards and prison attendants watching the spectacle began their own chant of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great). Then the rifles roared...