Word: happening
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...power. Dunne's suggestion came as a shock to many party regulars, who doubt that Daley's brand of one-man rule can be per-petuated-and who are, in fact, anxious to put the party and the mayoralty in separate hands. But the consolidation could happen, as anything can happen, in the brier patch of Chicago politics, where even in death the late mayor still casts a giant shadow...
Liberal Beirutis are angrily determined not to allow anything ominous to happen while they try to revive their city. Christian Philosopher-Politician Charles Malik, onetime United Nations General Assembly president, cites some of the limits to what Lebanon will endure for its Syrian-imposed peace: "We will not give up our individual or our international freedom. We will not have a closed education system like that in some other Oriental countries. We will not be cut off from the West, and we Christians will not become a subservient minority like the Copts of Egypt...
...spearhead anti-Korean government moves like Edwin O. Reischauer (University Professor) and Jerome Cohen (associate dean of the Law School) (and) thereby to engender a pro-Korean atmosphere at Harvard and in other American academic circles." The articles make much of the need to undercut critics of Korea who happen, hardly accidently, to teach in the areas presently to be fumigated, while those in economics and one long-term candidate in sociology are far more Park-supportive. Harvard has admitted that "there was a concern expressed by the Koreans that the money would not be used politically against them...
This game not only marks the first contest of the new year, but also the last Harvard home contest after dark until February, and a lot of things can happen between now and then. Like exams...
Kingsley Amis' twelfth novel is set in the now (1976) but hardly the here. Amis has rejiggered the present according to a formula beloved by armchair historians and sore losers: What would have happened if? In the case of The Alteration, the "if is the Reformation: it did not happen. Instead, Martin Luther accepted a compromise with the Roman