Word: cited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the reading he is surrounded by youths asking the usual hesitant questions of the starstruck. Does he remember a mutual friend? (Yes.) Does he still have a following in Europe? (He seems to remember, and cite, his every public reading scheduled within the past two years.) What younger poets does he like? (He mentions Punk Novelist Jim Carroll, Rock Singer Patti Smith and "a guy named David Pope in Grand Rapids, who doesn't get published...
...positions. They should devise new options for mutual benefit. And they should rely on "objective criteria" in reaching compromises. Diplomats--of the household and international variety--who stick to these four rules can present "yesable propositions" to their adversaries, Fisher promises. But Getting to YES does little more than cite endless hypothetical examples showing the merits of those four principles. Obviously, diplomats at all levels should consider their adversaries' interests too; equally obviously, imaginative compromises are the best way to resolve disputes. But calling for innovation and hammering out a foresighted agreement are two vastly different things. Nothing shows better...
...Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. The Reagan Administration holds that nearly all the Haitian refugees are fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and are thus not eligible to be admitted as political refugees. Others believe that many of the refugees are indeed entitled to political asylum, and cite evidence of those returned being beaten and tortured in Haitian prisons. As Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a Haitian exile leader, puts it, "There's a song being sung in Haiti now: 'The teeth of the sharks are sweeter than Duvalier's hell...
...length of the primary season. Many have argued that a delegate selection process beginning in January with the lowa caucus and ending in June with the California primary is too long. They cite exhaustion of candidates, boredom of the public, the expense and divisiveness of a prolonged campaign, and a bias in favor of candidates who can devote themselves to campaigning full-time for an extended period...
...keep their privilege in the new code. An American member of the canon law commission, Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati and his canon law adviser, Monsignor John A. Alesandro of Garden City, N.Y., say that the boom in U.S. annulments is the result of social factors. They cite the high number of divorces and the high number of mixed marriages in American society. U.S. annulments now will drag out somewhat, agrees Bernardin, but he says, "We feel this is something we can work with." To which Alesandro adds, "We're not handing out annulments like-lollipops...