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...long night of drama following the angry weeks of the campaign. Voter turnout was a respectable 77%, down slightly from 80.3% in 1977. The first television projection showing Labor ahead, however slightly, brought a roar of delight from party politicians and supporters, who had been out of office since 1977. Peres was greeted with a thunderous ovation as he went to the podium at Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he embraced his longtime rival, Yitzhak Rabin, a former Prime Minister, and received bouquets of flowers from children. An earnest, sad-eyed intellectual, Peres was uplifted by the acclamation...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) don slacks for the first time and model them for Gilles, and though it is the opposite of physical flesh-baring, it causes a glee symbolic of the liberation they are going through, and it means just as much as does their new found delight in the cliffs and beaches that surround their home...
Defining how Mitterrand won his mandate, and what it really means, was not entirely clear even to the French, who delight in precise analysis. The most likely explanation was that the French, alarmed by rising inflation and unemployment, and tired of Gisçard's imperial style, had simply voted for change and thus wound up with François Mitterrand in the Elysée. At that point, according to this view, the logical French gave the new President a clear-cut Socialist majority in order to avoid a constitutional deadlock or a messy coalition with the Communists. "Having opted for change...
...things delight subscribers-or editors-of medical journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
...Walter Payton run. No passive observer of the learning process, Adler is a full participant. He punches the air with his fists, bounces up and down in his chair, clasps his hands prayerfully to help students approach comprehension. When a difficult point is finally understood, he laughs with delight. During the discussion of goodness, when a student brings up Aristotle's concept of "right desire," Adler roars with pleasure. "What is really good for you is what you really need!" he shouts, waving his arms. Then he adds: "If I get so excited again I'm going...