Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight at Washington's National Airport. It was in the course of that conversation that Jackson dropped his "Hymie" bombshell. One of the reporters, Milton Coleman of the Washington Post, passed on the remark to a white colleague, Rick Atkinson, who used it in the 37th paragraph of a story about Jackson's foreign policy. Jackson at first insisted that he had no recollection of making the remark, then apologized in a synagogue two days before the New Hampshire primary...
...paper's power came last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a formal investigation into leaks to stock traders about what items were to appear in its "Heard on the Street" column. The Journal is far from complete: editors can dis miss political developments in a paragraph, and the paper's three daily Page One stories, while almost invariably literate, are not always on top of the news. But the Journal is the only truly international American newspaper, available on the day of publication virtually everywhere in the U.S. and in separate editions in Asia...
...first paragraph of the HJLSA letter, after reciting recent (and we might add tragic) attacks against Israeli citizens, concluded with a statement to the effect that the teach-in appeared to be designed "to show support for these terrorist acts." To call this a crude attempt at innuendo would be a gross under-statement. Does this mean that anyone who wished to listen to an "unpopular" point of view on the Palestinian issue supports terrorism...
Perhaps you could have reduced the facts to a single paragraph and devoted the rest of each article to tribute from teachers and friends. If time constraints made it impossible to prepare an appropriate article on short notice, you might have given notice of death in a small box on the front page and printed a full memorial on the editorial page several days later...
...read such a passage in Hustler magazine, it probably would have merited only a mental wince. But coming across the paragraph in the publication of a Harvard undergraduate organization left me shocked and sickened I believe the Harvard campus is, by and large, a good place for women and have always felt comfortable here. So it was sharply disillusioning to discover that any Harvard club would woo its members to a party with the promise of a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," ensuring that all will have the chance to "slice into one of these meaty...