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...with letters and calls, and one group previewed television spots that link contra aid to potential U.S. troop involvement in the region. Last week's disclosures by a civil rights group that the FBI has been tracking citizens opposed to U.S. policy in Central America also seemed timed to embarrass the Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Putting Guns on The Table | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Police later found a note in a Hefenreffer bottle near the Charles. The Crimson reprints the astounding note but leaves out the names so as not to embarrass roommates...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: Ten Little Turkeys | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...Mandales, director of the Boston Regional Hillel organization which is coordinating transportation for area college students, said, "The point is not to embarrass Gorbachev or to put him on the spot but just to let him know how we feel about the issue...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: Students Plan to March For Soviet Jews in D.C. | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...sure the scientists at the flight center in Moscow have rigged up a model containing another rhesus monkey with a free left arm -- all to see what mischief I'm capable of. They needn't worry. I will do nothing to embarrass the motherland. Besides, I can't leave my seat. I cannot reach any levers. Nor can I leave my chamber to visit the fish and the mice on board for experiments. What this biosatellite needs is some of your perestroika -- you know, restructuring. Space flight might then be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Sincerely yours, Yerosha

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Station, Can You Read Me? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

These days Jessica Hahn, Donna Rice and Fawn Hall are crisscrossing public attention, suddenly shot from obscurity to -- well, not fame and not stardom but a sort of fuzzy, soggy celebritude. They illustrate how the resourceful can profit from publicity that might just embarrass the unambitious. Consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: On The Springboard of Notoriety | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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