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Professors from both departments offered public apologies. Plasm and Spin issued a joint statement which read: "Hey, after you get tenure, it gets kind of monotonous around here. We were just trying to liven the place...
When not locked in fierce competition, Dobre and Silivas are pals who share a passion for pop music and food treats. Dobre has a weakness for ice cream; Silivas' tastes run to schnitzel and fries. As the strict training regimen expressly forbids the distraction of boyfriends, they liven their evenings with goose-feather pillow fights and what Head Coach Adrian Goreac cheerfully calls "talk, talk, talk." They are avid readers of adventure books. Dobre, a mischief-maker who collects dolls, favors fictional heroes who "fight all obstacles to reach their aims." Silivas, a quiet and intelligent girl, prefers a stately...
Another significant event that failed to liven up the caucuses was a victory by Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, which would have defined the Easterner as a viable national candidate. Added to a win a week later in New Hampshire, where Dukakis is widely viewed as the odds-on favorite, an Iowa victory would have catapulted him into the South as the Democratic frontrunner...
...liven his campaign speeches, Dole rattles off jokes, rapid-fire, like a string of firecrackers. But while he maintains that "I use humor to wake people up," he has often used it to cut them up. In 1974 he barely won re- election to the Senate over Dr. William Roy, a Topeka obstetrician, in one of the nastiest campaigns in Kansas history. Says Roy, who shares Dole's flair for vindictive rhetoric: "He was a slasher and a cutter. You almost felt he cut for the pleasure of cutting." Recalling how Dole ranted about "Democrat wars" when he was Gerald...
...businessman and broker, Khashoggi has as a trademark the exquisite and exotic women who seem to hover around him. He has often been accused of hiring expensive call girls to seduce the men he is attempting to do business with. He amiably confesses to paying for escorts to liven up business functions. The women, he suggests, sweeten the deal. "They lend beauty and fragrance to the surroundings," he says, while sitting on the terrace of his Marbella house overlooking Gibraltar. "They are also intelligent hostesses. I challenge anyone to come forward and prove that I ever told him the girls...