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...dozens of languages. As the restorers heated the building to bake out years of sea moisture, paint flaked off, revealing these immigrant artifacts. One Chinese graffito penciled on a bathroom wall is raw, wonderful poetry: "Thinking of home brings tears. I don't know what day we can be freed from our worries. Fathers, brothers, wives, children have scattered. Lucky just to arrive in the Flowery Flag country. I expected peace with no worries...
...between two slices of bread so he could eat without getting greasy fingers or being distracted by a fork and knife as he concentrated on the gaming table. This sort of convenience has delighted sandwich fans ever since. Extolling Montagu's contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, "He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much." Other countries dally with sandwiches--France with its croque-monsieur (a grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich), the Danes with their open-faced smorrebrod, which require knives and forks, the Greeks and Middle Easterners with their pita pockets full of lamb...
...recorded message addressed to the Harvard community, freed Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky this week called on students and professors to press for divestment and other sanctions against the Soviet Union...
...arguing a serious point, as indicated by his title, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed. The revolution, in his view, was intended to dismantle the welfare state and replace it with a minimalist Government that would do little more than keep law-and-order. Capitalism, freed of wasteful spending schemes and pepped up by tax cuts, would go on to produce prosperity for all. But his colleagues, up to and including the President, had only the dimmest idea of what it was they were supposed to be doing. They would never let Stockman fashion a program that...
Kouri was freed 1979, after surviving a starvation diet, physical brutality, and more than two years of solitary confinement...