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...place can claim to have been the first college founded on these shores; even is this fortunate circumstance is overlooked, only eight universities can boast of Ivy League status. Besides all this, who else can show off such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos, FDR, Norman Mailer (who did not write the Monroe doctrine), Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Alsop, Frederick Lewis Allen...All right, I give up! I concede...
...developed countries like Brazil and Mexico, it favors large grants of new capital to international lending agencies. Such funding could enable the World and Inter-American Development banks to ease the burden of recession-generated debt that now erodes up to 40% of export earnings of some Latin American na tions. Says Linowitz: "We're focusing on how to permit these people to go forward without being strangled by their heavy obligations." The commission report also condones two urgent Latin-American demands: lower U.S. tariff barriers to Latin exports and plans for stabilizing commodity prices...
...whether his rage might extend to her. When he saw her to safe ty before turning to make his last stand against the biplanes, it was a definitive revelation of character, a supremely touching act. In the new film it has been established that he is one of na ture's noblemen, and will certainly save her. The movie's end has nothing like the power of the first version's climax, with its sudden resolution of conflicting emotions about...
Even a hint of sex scandal entered the campaign. The latest gossip has it that Chiang Ch'ing's daughter Li Na was either married to, or having an affair with Wang Hung-wen, the handsome young Shanghai radical who until the purge was the No. 2 man in the Politburo. More significant politically was an antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime...
...Poor Mouth defines, explains, satirizes and defends "Gaelic". Pick up the book for the simple pleasures of the story and in the two hours it takes to read it you'll come to abominate the word Gaelic but identify with the essence. Na Gopaleen's wit cuts through the affectations and facile enthusiams of all Gaeligores and gives a glimpse of "the world as seen by the folk in Corkadoragha", a remote "Gaeltacht". Though in the preface to the first edition, "The Editor" cautions that Corkadoragha is "without compare" and not to be taken as representative of the Gaelic community...