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...Sometimes when I watch TV or read newspapers and magazines, I see corruption stories and I am really angry. But afterward, all the passion and rage drain out of me and I don't have the appropriate feeling of pain in my body. I totally forget that I myself am a Communist Party member." ?For a government official...
Meanwhile, the downsides to a basement pub are virtually nonexistent. There is an issue of cost, but Pub Nights have had popularity unrivaled by other social events and are the best possible investment for our social-improvement dollars. At worst, a permanent pub would drain the attendance of other parties, but given the overcrowded and over-exclusive nature of Harvard partying, this is hardly a drawback...
...don’t think it’ll be a physical drain,” Mann said. “They’re games that everyone’s looking forward to. Looking back I can’t ever recall there ever being any physical tax taken on the team...
...Massachusetts, had gone "from winking to blinking to nod." For his part, Reagan promised to keep up the fight against letting new taxes creep into the budget. "You didn't send us to Washington to feed the alligators," he said in his Saturday radio broadcast. "You sent us to drain the swamp...
...first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices, to acute shortages of even basic foodstuffs, a foreign debt of $1 billion, increasing unrest and repression and a "brain drain" of educated Guyanese from what was once one of Britain's most prosperous and attractive Latin American colonies...