Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Livingstones' request, Rachel nips off to advise her unofficial charge about the probable consequences of her Latin romance. The confrontation has the surprise effect of changing the polarity of Brookner's personality study. In an uncharacteristic show of spirit, Heather basically tells her friend from England to bugger off. Rachel's response is a revealing mixture of feminist hellfire and the ashes of envy. She uses her own disappointments with love and money as valuable object lessons at the same time that she accuses Heather of having it too easy: "Women don't sit at home any more, you know...
Last week President Reagan announced that the U.S. would withhold $6.5 million in fees collected by the Panama Canal Commission and scheduled to be paid to the Panamanian government this week. The money was held, said Washington, at the request of Delvalle, whom the U.S. continues to recognize as Panama's President. Reagan also suspended trade preferences that will affect $96 million in commerce between the U.S. and Panama. There will be no "business as usual" with the Noriega regime, the President said. Secretary of State George Shultz argued that a severe economic squeeze would force Noriega out. Other officials...
Following a close voice vote, Mandery announced the motion had failed, sparking Beroutsos to request a hand vote. Then chaos erupted. Mandery reported that by his count the motion had failed by a 20-21 vote; Beroutsos claimed a 22-19 vote (excluding the vote of Mandery and Vice-Chair Jeff Cooper '90 who voted while tabulating the vote, not by raising their hands). Beroutsos demanded a recount by an "impartial" member of the Council; to his credit Mandery did agree to the recount (but not to the "impartial" vote tabulator). When Council members raised their hands again, I counted...
...something quite special. "It's very hard for me to be silly about Superman," says Christopher Reeve, who plays the role in the movies, "because I've seen firsthand how he actually transforms people's lives. I have seen children dying of brain tumors who wanted as their last request to talk to me, and have gone to their graves with a peace brought on by knowing that their belief in this kind of character is intact. I've seen that Superman really matters. It's not Superman the tongue- in-cheek cartoon character they're connecting with; they...
Meanwhile, in Washington the House voted 216 to 208 to kill $30.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the contras. The package, designed by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright to replace a military aid request that he had helped defeat last month, was voted down by a strange-bedfellows' alliance of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Ronald Reagan, who opposed the Wright proposal as too weak, indicated that he will continue to press for military help...