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...that the only obstacles between Lamont’s fluorescent corridors and a good night’s rest were that Ec midterm you hadn’t studied for or the English reading you hadn’t yet attempted. Now there’s also James Fasci, a recently hired Allied-Barton employee with a bold new vision for library security. Before Fasci, leaving Lamont meant passing bags and books through a perfunctory once-over. Things have changed. For James Fasci, bag-checking is an art. He methodically inspects every compartment of every bag to ensure nothing slips...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Fasci-ism at Lamont | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...Students attributed the hold-up to a new security guard’s thorough examination of their books and belongings. “Every person I talk to complains about this line,” said M. Amelia Muller ’11, noting that the new guard, James Fasci, makes “everyone take every book out.” “Other security guards glance at books and let you go. It’s 1:30 in the morning, who cares?” she said. Students have taken notice of Fasci?...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long Lamont Line Irks Students | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

Because he patiently took a lot of abuse from Adenauer, many Germans began calling him "Gummilowe" (rubber lion). There is a widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Heart of Europe | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

When terse, provocative Benito Mussolini feels that someone in authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Chamber of Deputies was "abolished" once & for all last week, according to Il Duce, but he further declared, "Formal inauguration of La Camera del Fasci e delle Corporazioni [The Chamber of Fasce and Corporations] will depend on the successful conclusion of the Ethiopian War and upon developments in the European political situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Princess, Banks, Wheat, War | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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