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...clubs' objectionable features are no less striking, born of a long tradition of resisting advances in social tolerance and enlightenment. They are the last undergraduate groups on campus whose admissions decisions are based entirely on how favorably candidates impress existing members socially. They include women by policy and--in many cases--minorities by practice. Their preoccupation with mysterious initiation rites, elaborate rules over outsiders' access, and general secrecy about their affairs encourage insularity and narrow-mindedness...
Reagan's delicacy, however, did not impress government opponents. According to South Korea's National Council of Churches, about 400 political prisoners are in the country's jails, while another 400 political prisoners are banned from holding office. The opposition was particularly incensed that Chun had placed several hundred dissidents, including priests and journalists, under house arrest for the duration of the trip. Said Kim Young Sam, the leading dissident politician in Seoul: "I had no objection to Mr. Reagan coming here, but his visit should not result in support for the dictatorial regime...
Marshal Grigory Potemkin, one of the more artful lovers of Catherine the Great, accomplished many things during his long domination of Russia, but he is best remembered for an illusion. To impress Catherine with the prosperity that he had brought to her subjects, he is said to have built handsome fake villages all along the route of her tour through southern Russia in 1787. Historians doubt this tale, which they blame on malicious court gossip, yet there is something about the idea of "Potemkin villages" that lingers in the memory as a symbol of political craft...
...CLEAR from the play's onset that Hal regards Sam as a 40-year-old younger brother whom he can impress and teach and argue with. Willie joins the conviviality, but when the playfulness strikes a sensitive chord. Hal quickly reproaches him. Whereas Willie accepts the reprimand as a cowering child. Sam regards it half-seriously, as a request rather than a demand. He refuses to be treated like anything but an equal, and here the conflict begins to develop...
...Huskies then put the game away with two goals in the second half. Despite the deficit, however, the Crimson continued to impress. "We kept on playing hard all through the game," a pleased Harvard Coach Bob Scalise said afterwards. "They had to bring back their starting team at the end, we were playing so well...