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...then trounced by Ehud Barak in the 1999 general election. Netanyahu built his reputation on polished speechmaking and free-market economics in a country where neither had ever been overpopular. But Netanyahu also came across as a demagogue who did not speak out when his supporters circulated a poster portraying then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform. Netanyahu may or may not have changed his spots; the intifadeh, however, has undoubtedly made Israel more susceptible to his charms...
...while, in resisting factory closures with the risky tactic of physically occupying their plants. A man who goes by the pseudonym Wang Ren is one of the leaders. Now in his 50s with ample girth and a wide-open face, he could have stepped out of a 1960s propaganda poster. For three decades he labored at the Power Generation Equipment Plant, a money-losing factory with half-century-old machinery, that in 1996 was ordered to merge with a private company...
...With the Globe," reads the poster on the newspaper delivery truck. "Read J.J. Hunsecker." Hunsecker, the upper half of his face on the poster, seems already to be reading you. The flinty eyes behind those thick glasses stare out like Big Brother's; the film will soon reveal what sort of a big brother he is. Under the opening credits, Elmer Bernstein score blares confidently (though in truth it sounds like leavings from his terrific work on "The Man With the Golden Arm" two years before). The glimpses of midtown midnight Manhattan under the credits put me in mind...
Later, another planner pointed to the poster showing what it might look like if Harvard moved all its Cambridge-based graduate schools across the river. Her plan would also create a “Graduate House System” for students and their families, much like the College’s arrangement...
...only up to a point. If you’re “afraid of anal sex,” as the latest Contact poster blares, and need someone to talk you out of that silly phobia, than Harvard is the place for you. If you want to learn about French cinema or the Russian avant-garde, attend Taiwanese cultural festivals and watch Filipino dances, then come aboard, Harvard can help. If your idea of diversity is a freshman class, like mine, where roughly five hundred students hailed from either Massachusetts or New York, than this University is as diverse...