Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mere Puppets. Suharto's moves cut short political maneuvering by two dangerous rivals who had helped him topple former Dictator Sukarno in 1966. Roly-poly Sumitro, a golfing partner ("My stomach is my handicap") of the President, had sought to build up a following with students. When he was reported as favoring "new national leadership," Sumitro immediately denied that he had ever thought of calling for Suharto's replacement. But to political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit...
Thus the crucial nature of tonight's home stand against the Crimson. Harvard, fourth in the Ivy League with a 3-2 record, has had trouble with cellar-dwellers. Last year, the Crimson mustered a mere 78-72 margin over the Big Red, and opened league play this season with a 65-64 overtime squeaker at Dartmouth. A win over Harvard would destroy Cornell's chances for a repeat...
...Crimson icemen seemed content to practice their passing in the period, and worked the puck around for a mere eight shots on Brown goalie Dave Sagaser. The only shot to go in was a well-placed zinger by Kevin Carr with only a second remaining in the period...
Gaddafi, who fancies himself the prophet of Arab unity in the tradition of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, undoubtedly saw more than mere economic advantage to joining with Tunisia. He may have also viewed it as a means of punishing Egypt for backpedaling on its planned unification with Libya and for not even consulting him before launching the October war against Israel. Gaddafi was so miffed at Egypt's attitude that he refused to attend last November's Arab summit in Algeria...
Even ignoring the fact that there are other theories as to the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire, my reaction to this argument is that if our civilization is indeed so tenuous that it could be destroyed by the mere exhibition of pornography, then it is not worth saving. But a far more important issue to me is what underlies Vizzard's reasoning. Axiomatic to his viewpoint is an absolute notion of corruptness of luridness. I deny this axiom, at least for most sexual matters. Whatever my personal reactions to its moral implications, pornography seems...