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...succeed. Even though the leaders of the opposition Labor Party are willing to negotiate with Jordan about territorial concessions on the West Bank, they may inherit a fait accompli if they return to power. They might find the thousands of Jewish settlers, many of whom fanatically share Begin's biblical dream of a greater Israel, even more difficult to dislodge than the nearly 1 million indigenous Arabs are to absorb into Israel...
Whenever they start talking about Barry Hannah in the periodicals, they always bring up the Southern Writer thing. Southern Writers. The phrase rolls blissfully off the tongue as if it actually mertied those majuscules. It rolls off the tongue like a fait accompli, like some sort of advertising slogan. Southern Writers. Northern Lights. Westward...
...Fait accompli, Harvard style. From the ones who brought you the Cadillac of Kiosks...introducing: The New Shuttle Bus Schedule, which cuts wages of student drivers and maroons students on weekend days. No deans have been publicly identified as perpetrators of that schedule: they did get rather nasty press on those kiosks, remember? This time, CHUL students (most of whom never got to vote or even express an opinion on the new schedule) shoulder the blame. The effect: Divide and Conquer. Student shuttle drivers vs. students on CHUL; female students requiring the greater security of the new nighttime schedule...
...timing of Days' message-and its demand for a response in early January, just twelve days before Ronald Reagan's Inauguration-led South Carolinians to charge that Days was trying to present the new Administration with a fait accompli...
College administrators followed a traditional--and reprehensible--path by railroading the new "kiosk rule" through the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in an "emergency" meeting during reading period last spring. The kiosks greeted students as a fait accompli this fall, and despite objections by many undergraduate organizations, administrators have given every indication they will enforce the rule through warnings, fines and, ultimately, revocation of official privileges from disobedient organizations...