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...seems that the Crimson came, to the Union with the incorrect notion that any house sending representatives to greet freshmen did so to provide shoulders for them to cry on. This delusion clouded your reporter's ability to accurately interpret our motives. He only succeeded in perpetuation a misguided image of Mather House. Michael R. Epstein '85 Jonathan A. Lesserson '85 Steven A. Nussbaum...
...foreign dignitaries amid czarist-era splendor in the Kremlin's Hall of St. George. Unlike his predecessor, who had engaged in reception-line diplomacy following Brezhnev's funeral, Chernenko shook hands stiffly, his face rarely creasing into the smile of the practiced politician. He did not appear to greet such Communist stalwarts as Cuban Leader Fidel Castro or Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski with any more enthusiasm than he greeted Vice President George Bush or British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...last week from the Cunard Countess, the first cruise ship to glide into St. George's since the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada last October, they received a rousing welcome. "This," said a smiling taxi driver, "is the invasion we've been waiting for." The island will greet an even more significant invader with open arms this week: U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who will be the guest of honor at the celebration of Grenada's tenth birthday as an independent nation. Shultz may find, however, that the islanders are at present more interested in dependence...
...quietly through the welcoming din. Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people for the purpose of seeking increased mutual understanding...
This is, of course, taken from the harsh extreme of the female experience. But it demonstrates why some women are wary to the point of apparent hostility; and why even the warmest and most outgoing women sometimes greet men with an icy reserve...