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Gassama said the coalition decided to stage the picket outside Pound Hall, where the course will be taught, after deciding against disrupting the class. "We considered it, but we are taking measured responses," he explained...
...Brittan, assistant editor of London's Financial Times, pointed out that the recent downturn in the value of the U.S. dollar and the British pound should help ease protectionist pressures both in the U.S. and throughout Western Europe. The U.S. and Britain, whose exports have suffered from overvalued currencies for more than a year, are now expected to be less inclined toward curbing imports. Reason: foreign-made goods will become relatively more expensive, and thus less competitive, in the U.S. and British markets, thereby helping to stimulate sales for domestic manufacturers and reduce demands for protectionist measures...
...punishment are social vengeance, the affirmation of civilization's standards and the deterrence of future crimes. The last has never been proved, unfortunately, but if vengeance is what society seeks, a gentle execution would seem counterproductive. Better to use the garrote or the guillotine, surely, whereby the full pound of flesh may be reclaimed. Better still to do as the Romans in cases of parricide. The criminal, judged guilty, would be bound and sealed in a sack with a dog and a chicken, then dumped into the water. Eventually he would suffocate or drown, if he was not first...
Half of a 10-oz. Frozen pound cake, thawed (or 6-8 pieces of dining hall cake with the frosting removed...
...news from television has for some time been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their primary and only source of information...