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Although Government Department colleagues like James Q. Wilson and Harvey C. Mansfield grab more attention, Verba has led a rather celebrated academic career both at Harvard, where he began teaching in 1973, and at Stanford and the University of Chicago. He has won two American Political Science Association awards for recent books. And from 1977-80, he chaired the Government Department here...
What gave the clumsy power grab more importance, however, was that the airmen were almost immediately joined by students from the University of Nairobi and by hordes of ragged shantytown dwellers, who went on a rampage of looting and destruction. They proceeded to plunder everything that they could carry away from the stores of downtown Nairobi's predominantly Asian retailers (estimated losses due to the looting: $50 million). Recalls one eyewitness to the destructive orgy: "Guys were running around stuffing money into their pants, and when their pockets were full they stuck the money in their underpants...
...relish. Then too Zack will have to Learn to Love, which, of course, means Learning to Trust. Luckily, Paula Pokrifki (Debra Winger) is around to take are of that educational effort. The movie holds that girls who hang around officer candidates are not above faking pregnancy in order to grab a man due to don an upmarket uniform, and Zack is supposed to wonder, for at least three seconds, if that is Paula's game...
...casket, he remembered how Morgan Perry used to speak to him: 'You Greeks with olive oil in your veins instead of blood,' he used to say, 'you come here to see what you can get out of us, you and those other Mediterranean niggers. You grab what you can, then go back with our money. Make it here, spend it there; take everything, give nothing. Tell me what you've given this country? I know what you've taken-I pay you every Saturday. It's our generosity against your greed. Not just...
That was the key to the game's unexpected lightness of mood. This was an acted-out comic book, adult cops and robbers. It certainly did not carry the brutal symbolic weight of fantasized murder. When Hockmeyer, the Maine riverman, shot me as I was about to grab the red flag and glory, I said "Ooog, good shot" and immediately felt slow and stupid, not quick and clever. But that was the extent of it; I didn't feel dead...