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...Bucharest, Ceausescu appeared before a contrived propaganda rally outside the presidential palace. Thousands of workers had been assembled to applaud and wave flags on cue as he called for unity and tried to blame the riots on Hungarian "revanchists" bent on recapturing Transylvania. His rasping voice was rising to a shout when the crowd suddenly drowned him out with boos, jeers and demands for the truth about Timisoara. Visibly astonished by this face-to- face encounter with rebellion, Ceausescu froze. He quickly ended the rally and darted into the palace...
...makes moviegoers feel. They hitched a ride with him in Risky Business and made him a star at 21. They sat in the cockpit of his F-14 as he swaggered through the sky in Top Gun. They perched in a pool hall and watched him wield a cue like a master swordsman in The Color of Money. They flew to the Caribbean to join him in a frothy Cocktail. They traveled with him on a cross- country journey to fraternal reconciliation in Rain Man. And with each adventure, audiences adjusted their estimation of the young man -- from Most Likely...
...stay with the black Bears, it almost snagged a victory in the final minutes of the game. Trailing, 55-40, with only 4:20 left in the game, Harvard took a timeout, went back out and outscored Maine, 7-2, in the next two minutes. Taking her cue, Maura Healey then hit her first three-point shot, bringing the Crimson to within seven...
Ronald Reagan? Ed Koch? Dan Quayle? Nope. That was Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ("a stellar professor"--the CUE Guide), the Thomson professor of government, talking at a forum organized by the Undergraduate Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Hiring last Thursday night...
...then there was Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom ("friendly attitude"--the CUE Guide). At the same forum, he placed a five dollar bill on the table, betting Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies Roderick J. Harrison that Black professors at other Ivy League universities are "unqualified" as academics...