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...President Bok and the Corporation seem to want a Board filled with opinion-less members. In addition to preventing a vote on divestment, the formation of the new committee is designed to prevent Overseers from taking any initiative in University policy. Paranoid that the Corporation could lose the upper-hand in governing the University, President Bok and his associates in the administration are willing to sacrifice serious consideration of divestment on the altar of preserving the governing hierarchy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clock is Ticking | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

...pair of paranoid fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Failure to Cult Classic | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...says one Atlanta heiress. "For example, driving on vacation instead of flying. But some wealthy women measure how many rungs of the ladder a man has climbed." Others are paralyzed by fear of being used by potential lovers or marriage partners. Declares Wilkin: "You can get paranoid and stay home and watch TV and eat bonbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Woes of Being Wealthy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...bashing. To the cheers of peasant supporters, he said his struggle with the U.S. was a battle for "national liberation." He suggested that the U.S. Southern Command, which maintains 10,000 troops in Panama, be sent packing. As for Blandon, Noriega dismissed him as a "Benedict Arnold" and a "paranoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama Noriega's Money Machine | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...signs of outright altruism and intellect. I hope that their virtues might serve as a counter-example to the underlying theory of Mr. Morris's diatribe. As to the other theory proposed in the piece, that which seeks to find a connection among such concepts as banks, stinginess, and "paranoid, bigmouthed, incredibly pushy New York Jews:" what about big noses, wonders one? Well, I suppose "we" have a license to criticize "our own," for, as one Crimson reporter tells me, "a lot of us are Jewish," as is Mr. Morris himself. Naturally--otherwise we would never have seen such references...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Objection to `Where the Old People Bake Their Brains' | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

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