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However, the news story reported an event whose light coverage was disproportionate to its significance: it was a matter-of-fact account of a thwarted CIA plot to overthrow Surinam's government. Convinced that the South American country's leader Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse might be soft on Communism. America's favorite foreign policy arm hatched a scheme to oust his regime, which seized power in a military coup in 1980. According to The Times' report, the CIA plan called for a paramilitary force composed primarily of Surinamese exiles to infiltrate the capital city and take over the government Maybe...
Several factors are responsible for the cooling of America's love affair with space travel. The repeated shuttle flights make the launch pad routine and the plumes of fiery smoke much more matter-of-fact. This $11 billion project is far, less dramatic than previous NASA endeavors. The uses of the shuttle have also tempered American enthusiasm. The emphasis in space travel has shifted from a scientific one rooted in a relatively pure quest for advancing technology to one exploring less-vaunted commercial and military possibilities...
...roles Pastan is not so matter-of-fact about is one we all must play at some point: the role of survivor. People are a source of life in Pastan's poetry--her children, her husband/lover, herself. When someone dies, her sense of creativity utters a gasp apart from mourning; its food has been wrenched away. But Pastan remains clam about the way life seems to decay after the death of a loved one. With the lines: The world is shedding - its thousand skins. she survives a funeral by noticing how mourners see the whole world as dry and falling...
...certainly not one to regard Salazar as anything less than a god," says the matter-of-fact Schlesinger, who pulled up alongside the champion for a few moments in the race's sixteenth mile...
Perhaps more significant, though, was the unsensational, almost matter-of-fact nature of the event. Though the national media seem poised to cover "Harvard's election of a gay chairman," students here seemed to have no thought of such fanfare. The chairman, Michael Colantuono '83, has used his GSA experience as a campaign vote-getter but, now in office, he downplays the label "gay activist"; he promised the council while campaigning that he would not impose his politics or "progressive views" on them. For the meteorically successful Harvard gay rights movement, it may seem that a truly wonderful goal...