Word: salzman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bulldog Steve Salzman (190) topped Kelly Flynn, 5-1, and his teammate Dan McInnis (heavyweight) beat Alex Konovalchik, 5-4, to close the margin to four points...
...Mark Salzman was riding an overcrowded bus in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, when he saw a passenger clambering aboard. The driver asked him to step off. The request was ignored, the door closed, and the bus pulled away with the stubborn rider sticking halfway out. Arriving at his destination, the man cheerfully paid half the usual fare and went...
...Salzman knows exactly how he felt. For two years the author stood part way in, part way out of a rapidly moving conveyance called the People's Republic of China. Fresh out of Yale, he took a job in 1982 teaching English at a college in Changsha. He lived, worked and learned among his pupils, mostly young medical students, plus a group of former Russian-language instructors sent down for retraining after shifting political winds had rendered their specialty obsolete. Nearly every day Salzman tried to reignite imaginations extinguished by the Cultural Revolution. Nearly every hour circumstances taught him about...
...words: Ed Meese. So it was hardly surprising last week that Reagan, facing the most serious crisis of his presidency, would turn to his longtime confidant, political protector and general cleanup man, Edwin Meese. "I think we're now getting back to the old Ed Meese," says Ed Salzman, publisher of the Golden State Report and a veteran Meese watcher, "the guy who kept Reagan out of trouble...
...possibly, that they were pro-poison. By a tally of 1,044 to 687, collegians at the elite Ivy League campus in Providence called on the school administration to stockpile cyanide pills for use in the event of nuclear war. To critics who called the vote preposterous, Jason Salzman, a sponsor of the referendum, had a ready reply: "The nuclear arms race is killing us, and we succeeded in making a lot of people think about...