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...promptly identify products bought from a company or subsidiary of a company about which an organization is concerned; (2) the organization interested in a boycott should report its intentions to the appropriate Faculty committee (in the case of undergraduate boycotts, CHUL) and present to the committee both pro and con arguments concerning the boycott; (3) the University should cease purchase of the product, if a substantial number of students stop using that product--provided there are substitutes available at comparable costs...
...Educate Their Senators" Pro and con SALT lobbyists are focusing on a score of undecided votes...
...descriptive eye; he goes for tourist snapshots instead of true grit. Except for Denholm Elliott, who offers a fastidious portrait of a typically down-and-out British colonial, the actors do little to help the proceedings. Gazzara is fairly blameless, given his flat role, but the miscasting of his con-man nemesis is a disaster. Had a strong actor played the villain, who recalls Harry Lime in The Third Man, Saint Jack might have had some tension and dramatic heft. Instead, the director has placed himself in the role and then played it tepidly. No doubt it is healthy...
Entire families, including mothers with their children and nurses, con verged on Paris' Place de la Revolution (now the Place de la Concorde) to see the spectacle. After the blade fell, an executioner displayed the severed head of the King to the crowd. Shouts of "Vive la nation!" rang out. Louis' tricornered hat was auctioned from the scaffold and Ms hair and hair ribbon were also sold by the executioner's aide. Some people took home hand kerchiefs and scraps of paper dipped in the King's blood as souvenirs. Many danced around the guillotine, singing...
Would Leyrer take Bentz back again? "I'd certainly consider it," said the law official. Bentz's righteously aggrieved comment is what might be expected from an unappreciated teacher, or an old con...