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...trip to the distant camps is lengthy and costly. And what about the children? Somebody has to take care of them while their mother is away, and she is lucky if she still has some true friends left to do her the favor: the KGB does its best to frighten them away. Of course, she can take her child with her, but she knows that her little daughter can be subjected to the same body search that is in store for her. Even if she somehow manages to provide for her family's needs, this one trip will completely...
...reading list was Exhibit A of the hirsute instructor's presentation. Containing authors more properly suited to a philosophy course--Huizinga, Ortega Gasset, and Mishima, among others--the list had enough clout to frighten away more than half of those who showed up for the supposed joyride...
Casanova contains more screwing than most porno flicks, more derogatory statements about women, gays, the French, the English, the afflicted and freaks than any chauvinism. But the film's operatics and unreality make it unoffensive and asexual. Casanova does not move, frighten, or arouse us, because it does not take place in our world...
Fluctuations in the national economy and the stock market naturally affect giving to Harvard. "Bad times dry up sources of money and frighten people," Peterson says. But he adds that an efficient fundraising system should be able to overcome these trends. With the right "psychological" as well as economic strategy, Harvard can "largely ignore economic fluctuation. We plan in the good times so that we can survive the bad," he says...
Political conflicts heighten the tension within OPEC. Higher oil revenues enable Iran to buy more guns and tanks with which to frighten its neighbors across the Persian Gulf−an escalation that Saudi Arabia, one of those neighbors, decidedly does not wish to encourage. The archconservative Saudis are also at odds with the radical Arab states of Algeria, Iraq and Libya, whose hand would be strengthened by a big oil-price jump. The Iraqi oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, blasted the Saudis for trying to force OPEC to "succumb to pressures from the oil monopolies and imperialist forces...