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...upon closer examination, both my statements and Kirkland's stereotype quandary can be clarified. In the same way that there is an annoying University-wide tendency to identify, unfairly, yet continually, Kirkland's residents as athletes before students, there is an exasperating Kirkland-wide (and University-wide) inclination to overlook, unjustly, though consistently, burning issues of intolerable discrimination that underlie Kirkland's single-faceted reputation...
...focus of the anger was the difficulty of ousting Panama's arrogant military leader, General Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. attorneys in Tampa and Miami last month had announced indictments of Noriega for drug trafficking and money laundering. The charges made it impossible for the Reagan Administration to continue to overlook Noriega's sinister activities...
...unique method of reading and reacting to the wind, sacrificing grace for distance. The antistyle may also owe something to Nykanen's fierce personality and determination to do everything his own way. At any rate, it does not seem to cost him style points. Judges are apparently willing to overlook his less than perfect form, presumably because the greatest ski jumper in the world should not be put down on narrow aesthetic grounds...
...deaths of spouses or friends, living alone, retirement from a job, serious illness. The classic symptoms of depression -- guilt, hopelessness, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, and suicidal thoughts -- are more likely to be noticed in younger people because they are so out of character. But families and doctors too often overlook depression in the elderly. The warning signs may sometimes be subtle: headaches, stomach ailments, vague complaints of not feeling right. And there is always the tendency to dismiss the signals as normal aging, just old folks' crankiness. When depression is recognized, counseling and drugs successfully treat three-quarters...
...trying to predict the future from the past. In fact, it leads one to wonder whether Kennedy has not interpreted the past in light of his understanding of the present. Current worries about the critical gap between American commitments overseas and her declining resources may have led Kennedy to overlook important factors in his interpretation of the great powers...