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Dates: during 1980-1989
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East Europeans use political humor to stay sane. A joke now making the rounds in coffeehouses and parlors involves a meeting of East bloc leaders to decide how to react to Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. Recalling the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia to stop reforms, they announce that Warsaw Pact troops are invading the Soviet Union to crush the threat to Communism posed by the radical Gorbachev regime...
...teaching ability already plays a significant part in tenure decisions, and students may not be able to evaluate teaching properly, said Joel Porte, chairman of the English department. "Our own judgment of scholarship might differ from the way studentswould react," Porte said...
...open all manner of embarrassing foreign policy secrets and possibly point to some indictable misdeeds as well. As publication day approached, an almost palpable sense of fear settled over the , White House. Some aides went so far as to speculate that, depending on how Ronald Reagan and his lieutenants react, Feb. 26 could turn out to be a secular analogue of Judgment Day. Said an apprehensive Reagan assistant of the report: "We've got to be careful. If we mishandle this, that's all she wrote...
Siegel allegedly passed the information on to Wigton and Tabor. According to the charges, that duo then embarked on some sophisticated dealing for the brokerage's private trading account, based on their assumptions of how the stock market would react to the Unocal ploy. The twosome allegedly bought put options that allowed Kidder, Peabody to sell Unocal stock at a future date for a preset price that subsequently earned a handsome premium for the seller. The brokerage firm is said to have made "millions of dollars of illegal profits" on that and other transactions...
...animals? If lions and leopards and rhinos and giraffes are merely decorative, or merely a nuisance, then the world will no more mourn them than it mourns the stegosaurus or the millions of buffalo that once wandered across the American plains. Is all animal life sacred? How would one react to the extinction of, say, the rattlesnake...