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...early projections from sample precincts. In contrast to his usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want company during these final hours of his long vigil. Yet he is a failure when it comes to small talk and so he had avidly seized on a remark about how it always rains here in Chateau-Chinon. Forthwith, he proceeded to launch into a lecture on local meteorology...
...that were not enough to inflame Begin, Schmidt had also characterized him unflatteringly in an off-the-record remark that found its way into the West German weekly Stern and, apparently, to Begin's ears. The Jews, Schmidt reportedly said, had taken 2,000 years to found a state "and then 30 years later, along comes a lunatic like Begin and puts everything at risk...
Golf is one of the most misunderstood sports in captivity. A recent survey of the Crimson newsroom revealed that many consider golf the most preppy sport around. "Preppy, but not a sport." One editor even went so far to remark...
...closing, we want to remark that we would like to see all fellowships opened to women. However, as graduates of Radcliffe College, we feel uneasy about the envious tone used by the authors to describe the fellowships restricted to men. To us, differences in the size of the fellowships' awards do not determine the prestige or academic distinction that such fellowships confer. The authors of the article also fail to recognize that the $18,000 distributed by the Radcliffe fellowships could easily be divided into the same amounts as the $18,500 distributed by the Shaw, King, etc. Instead, Radcliffe...
...radio"). Yet this is no modern phenomenon. The term faux pas goes back at least as far as the 17th century, having originally referred to a woman's lapse from virtue. Not that women lapse more than men in this regard. Even Marie Antoinette's fatal remark about cake and the public, if true, was due to a poor translation...