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...school English teacher for two years in Benton Harbor, Mich. Indeed, the story itself was first suggested by Tamarkin, who was frustrated at the poor instruction her daughter Elisa, now nine, was receiving in Chicago's public schools. "Her papers came home filled with the teacher's flagrant errors," she says. "How do you tell your child that contrary to what the teacher says, pin and pen are not homonyms...
...mood of the Islamic ministers, who represented 39 nations and the Palestine Liberation Organization, has changed considerably since they met in the Pakistani capital last January. The final resolution of that conference attacked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The muted resolution adopted by last week's conference called for a Soviet troop withdrawal, but it also kowtowed to the Kremlin by urging a reasoned "political" approach to the problem...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 465, on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, might not strike the casual reader as an inflammatory document. Yet in the arcane world of diplomacy, its language is unusually severe. It "strongly deplores" the settlements, calls them "a flagrant violation" of the Fourth Geneva Convention and cites "the grave consequences" that this Israeli policy may have on attempts to negotiate a permanent peace in the Middle East. The resolution is also rife with politics-laden buzz words to which Israeli officials and their American-Jewish supporters are particularly sensitive...
...added that the committee also participates in campaigns against countries such as Chile, Paraguay and the USSR where human rights violations are universally flagrant and widespread...
...known to occur in white culture) they would never have been shown on this campus or any other in the country. The callousness of the Peabody, its director, Karlovksy, and others in permitting this material to be presented at Harvard is a reflection of haughty insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feelings of our black students and staff. This attitude has become more and more prevalent around Harvard...