Word: mill
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...feeling is that the issue of the hostages is moving toward a solution," said Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week. With those words, Rafsanjani stoked the rumor mill that has been working at full blast since late February, when the Tehran Times called for the unconditional release of the 18 Western hostages, eight of them Americans, held in Lebanon for as long as five years. The day after the editorial appeared, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, a Lebanese group that holds some of the victims, added to the hopeful speculation by saying, "We have...
HARVARD should take a lesson from John Stuart Mill. If we do not listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is only one "correct" idea, everything stagnates in a bath of tepid, kneejerk liberalism...
There is at least some possibility of a coalition that would unite angry conservatives in the party with worried bureaucrats at all levels and military men who resent their increasing role in controlling ethnic rebellion. "There is grist for their mill," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow of such opponents. "They want to restore centralization, keep the country strong. It's a prescription for a real Russian-dominated empire." If disorder does increase, he adds, "maybe a leader will emerge...
...charges, magnified by the Manila rumor mill, have inflicted serious political damage. While the President herself is considered incorruptible, critics accuse her of turning a blind eye to family and friends who are said to be enriching themselves at the public's expense. "What good is a Blessed Virgin Mary if she is surrounded by Sodom and Gomorrah?" asks one disillusioned official. In a December speech after the coup attempt, even Jaime Cardinal Sin, Aquino's most important supporter, warned of "a social explosion" unless Aquino swiftly defused "unceasing reports of the abusive roles of presidential relatives...