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...private he often referred to Jews collectively as Hymie" and New York City as "Hymie-town," Jackson nervously dodged the question. "I am not anti-Semitic," he said. "I am not inclined to ... be insulting. The charges have intensified Jewish antagonism toward Jackson, already fierce because of his manifest sympathy for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Jackson, for his part, accuses an organization calling itself Jews Against Jackson of trying to disrupt his campaign...
...subject of the huge landscape "machines" produced by late 19th century artists who went West, such as Church and Albert Bierstadt, both exceptionally well represented in this show. Each image of waterfall and mountain, volcano and precipice becomes an act of appropriation, the pictorial equivalent to the myth of Manifest Destiny. Practically no French or English painting of the day presents such pre-Cinemascope prodigies with such coercive zeal; with them, the idea of American vision almost becomes a fetish...
Customs agents suspected the real buyer: the Soviets. Aided by West German customs officials, they found a manifest for the laser with a most incriminating address: a physics lab in Moscow. Cormerford and Adamski, charged last week, each face up to seven years in prison. Prankish federal agents decided to send along the Soviet-bound parcels-sort of. They filled the crates with 700 Ibs. of concrete and, inside one, tucked a two-word note, in plainest English...
...when the traditional agencies of education, schools and colleges, have been severely criticized by the general public and by some articulate educators. Indeed, during the past year an unprecedented public attention has concentrated upon issues of schooling and the need for improvement of schooling. This widespread concern has been manifest in the reports of various commissions, including the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the Task Force of the Twentieth Century Fund on the Federal Role in Education, and the report of the Education Commission of the States...
...help students who fail to register. According to this view, even unsubsidized loans and campus jobs represent a form of help or at least afford some measure of convenience to nonregistering students. As such, these jobs and loans arguably constitute encouragement to those who violate the law and manifest disrespect on the University's part toward the will of Congress...