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...Crimson's requests for an explanation of Fox's directive did not elicit a response from University officials...
Once Wallace gets our gawking attention, his deviants become like the Krafft-Ebing case histories in Psychopathia Sexualis, grotesque illustrations of fundamental errors in personal relations. To what point? Wallace suggests coyly that Hideous Men is meant to interrogate the reader, to elicit fresh responses to horrors that have lost their edge in the age of information overload. Sometimes this works; when it doesn't, we get a facetious exercise like the "pop quizzes" in Octet that pose dire situations mimicking academic test questions...
Though each disparages the other's methods and motives, Bukoshi and Salihu say they are doing everything they can to get money out of the Albanian diaspora and into Kosovo. The contributions they elicit fund both humanitarian aid to Albanian civilians and, according to Homeland Calling's chief for Germany, military aid for the K.L.A...
...magazine publisher's most famous initiative, revamping the "horrific" tax system, did not elicit an over-whelming response during his obligatory campaign stop in Manchester-even on the night before...
...also speaking personally--not as representatives from their time-consuming extracurricular--see the current debate cut to the heart of their Harvard experience. It raises questions of whether they feel truly supported on campus--and forces them to consider how something they've devoted so much time to can elicit such strong feelings from their peers...