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...Then of course we've had a flap or two. The gouging, for one. Say your wife is cooking. It means you get to eat free. But we had 'em bringing the whole family in here for breakfast and dinner. Oh, we had a big flap over that...
...said in passing that the original article resulted from a study funded by the CIA, but the source of funding was not given. As a result of a flap at Harvard about this instance, and some others more or less at the same time, the CIA somewhat changed its policy about keeping the source of funding secret, and the CIA is clearly identified as this source in the Wall Street Journal article...
...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
...Kenya, the press has relentlessly attacked Western news reports on the AIDS epidemic. The latest flap came after London's Daily Mail reported that Prince Charles would carry his own supply of blood with him on an upcoming trip to the continent. PRINCE CHARLES SCARED OF AIDS! screamed the headline in the Kenya Times...
Congress has been compared to an aviary whose inhabitants tend to band together in tiny groups that flap around in circles. But every now and then all the birds wing in tight formation to the same destination. It happened last year on tax reform and drug legislation. As the 100th Congress gets to work, the flock is forming early. This time its goal is to pass a trade bill, one that, for a change, will not be shot down by President Reagan's veto...