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...university. Now there's very little talk about that. It's a process you'd only want to go through once, but the university and the students will come out stronger for it." And Studer notes that MSU has purged from its system what several universities have yet to confront...
...Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want the Arabs to help them confront the first danger, why don't the Americans help us solve the second...
...lucky, more personal, powerful version of the album's "Christine," as well as a throwaway song composed in the studio, "Lovers' Walk." There are similar superfluities on the album, like "Ghost of a Chance," but the extended length project accurately reflects Jeffreys' creative energy and vision. Daring to confront and reinterpret his own work, to create music with players of different nationalities and races, he cannot keep within the limits of a conventional album...
...physicians back in the 1930s had spent their full time helping to engineer safer highways, we would have about one-fifth of the highway casualties we have today," Nader said, adding that another reason doctors are reluctant to research prevention in these areas stems from a desire not to confront big business...
Unable to confront the fact that her own environment completely lacks the furious romantic grandeur of Wuthering Heights. Manon strikes out restlessly and blindly. She is fierce and jealous in her demands for her mother's love, but when she runs away from home for a day she flees something greater and more upsetting than a simple realization of her mother's independence. At 13, Manon chugalugs beer, puffs cigarettes and inhales pot, but none of these divertissements satisfies her. Indeed, they are completely irrelevant to Manon's dark, seething inner life...