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...that you attempted to contact me a number of times. I received only one message which in no way indicated that returning the call was urgent. Even if I had received repeated messages and attempted to reply it would have been an exercises in futility. As proven by the hack job which appeared on December 14, even the simplest facts are distorted when filtered through one of your overzealous first-year "reporters...
...mainland, Yamashita's bicycle-riding invaders needed only 70 days to pedal and hack their way 600 miles down the Malayan peninsula. All through the night of Jan. 31, British troops marched out of Malaya and across the 1,100- ft.-long causeway to the island fortress of Singapore. The last 90 to leave were Argyll Scots marching to their bagpipers skirling Hielan' ((Highland)) Laddie. The British then blew a 70-ft. gap in the causeway -- but the inrushing waters proved to be only 4 ft. deep at low tide...
...Clinton wants to be President. How can a little-known pol from a small state make it against a popular President? For this expert hack, the answer follows the old if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em logic. Clinton figures he has to run as a moderate. Cut spending. Support the death penalty. Talk pro-business and anti-liberal. For conservative times, this is smart. Too bad it's bullshit...
...only one: Valeri Boldin, his own chief of staff. It was as if John Sununu had joined a coup against George Bush. The others were finally identified as Oleg Baklanov, deputy chairman of the National Defense Council and in effect leader of the military-industrial complex; a Communist Party hack named Oleg Shenin; and General Valentin Varennikov. In the name of the so-called State Committee for the State of Emergency, the visitors demanded that Gorbachev sign a decree proclaiming an emergency and turning over all his powers to Vice President Gennadi Yanayev. Gorbachev's reply: "Go to hell...
...kosher food Hillel serves at every meal is not political, PC hack food. The Hillel-sponsored Mosaic is not a political, PC hack literary magazine. Hillel's Sabbath services are not political, PC hack services. Judaism is not a political, PC hack religion. You'd think the founder of an organization devoted to extending religion's influence on campus would know that...