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...Silvio Berlusconi, himself elected in reaction to the shadiness of his predecessors. If scandal brings down his government any time soon, Berlusconi's will take its place among a long series of famously short-lived postwar governments in Italy, where the citizenry certainly take to heart Thomas Jefferson's dictum "that government governs best which governs least...
However, the one thing that has changed, over and over again, is the American policy towards these refugees. The Bush administration held to a strict deportation policy without the benefit of asylum hearings; candidate Clinton attacked this dictum as both "immoral" and "illegal" throughout the campaign. In January 1993, President Clinton proclaimed that he would temporarily continue the Bush policy until an "acceptable" alternative is found. In June of the same year, Clinton announced economic sanctions would be imposed on the Haitian regime...
...visitor, shrilly confronted Solzhenitsyn with a timeless, rural Russian lament: "The roads are full of water. Why can't you do something about it?" Said Solzhenitsyn: "I'm not an official. I can't do anything." It was a humble admission from a literary giant, proving the biblical dictum that prophets have no honor in their own countries...
...game," says O'Neill, referring to a rule that also governs the game of life. "A hitter has to realize that. Last week I was hitting the ball hard, and it was falling in. Last night I hit the ball hard, and they caught it." Wee Willie Keeler's dictum, enunciated nearly a century ago, still applies: Hit 'em where they ain't. And how does a ballplayer do that? With a great deal of skill and a little luck...
Nietzsche said that there is no such thing as fact, only interpretation. No other dictum is as important as this one to keep in mind as we approach the end of our beloved Shopping Period. With study card day looming over us, now is the time to consider our most important reference material--not the Confi--The Crimson's own recycled yet still funny jokes about the accents and titles of our professors--but rather the CUE Guide...