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...from Lebanon any time soon, it will press ahead in its dealings with Syria, hoping to find out precisely what Assad's price is. At the same time, the Reagan Administration is trying to persuade moderate Arabs to lend a hand. Shultz stopped over in Saudi Arabia to confer with King Fahd, but the Saudis emerged later with a rather grumpy pronouncement that they would not serve as anyone's "tool." Translation: With their characteristic caution, which often borders on gutlessness, the Saudis are waiting for others to do the work for them. That message came through when...
...sometimes he accepted. It is rarely "accepted", we aren't here to accept or reject. we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
Last month, the senior class voted 2-1 to confer upon the game's winning play their highest commemorative honor: the 1983-Ivy Stone, The Daily Pennsylvanian, the UPenn student newspaper reports...
Representatives of ABC, NBC, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, among others, submitted affidavits supporting CBS. Confidentiality for in-house investigations is vital for editors at the Journal, noted Dow Jones News Vice President Edward Cony. "Anything that interferes with their ability to confer with one another fully and candidly diminishes their ability to exercise properly their responsibilities as editors...
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings that a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular...