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...Area studies," such as the study of the Middle East, are particularly frought with these dangers. It is common knowledge that most departments of Middle East studies in the United States pay scant if any serious attention to Israel, and that the field is highly politicized. What American scholars of the Middle East write is often not far removed from the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor is the fact that Nadav Safran is both Jewish and supportive of the broad contours of Israeli policy incidental to events of the last six months. Is not the politicization of this discipline...
...reason that Petrus is so costly is that only small quantities are produced. While the renowned Chateau Lafite has 225 acres that annually yield about 240,000 bottles, Chateau Petrus has just 30 acres that produce a scant 42,000 bottles. Says John Laird, a vice president for Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines, the largest U.S. distributor of Petrus: "We ration it out with an eyedropper...
...plan as well intentioned but too small in scale to do the job. U.S. bankers, for their part, fear that any more dollars they lend will simply go down the same chute as their earlier loans. In any event, the Baker plan's long-term therapy is of scant use to Mexico, which needs a bailout right away. The Reagan Administration seemed sympathetic to Herzog's appeal last week, but gave no indication about what kind of financial help it might be considering...
Aaron DiAntonio '88, a representative from Mather House, tried to point out difficulties with the plan on the council floor. DiAntonio called the fingers "cute, but not $500 worth of cute." But his advice received scant consideration from the not-quite-50 of Harvard's 88 council members who were present to vote on the plan. Pressed for time after passing nearly an hour discussing the council's responsibility to speak out on "controversial political questions," the members devoted about five minutes to approving the fingers expenditure...
After the messy business of plot has been taken care of (in a scant 30 minutes), Stallone gets down to his bread and butter, training and fight scenes. The last hour of this short film is filled with flashbacks from the first three Rocky incarnations, scenes of the Italian Stallion hauling a sled full of chopped wood up a 90-degree cliff in training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that...