Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the government, Hernu alone denied the revelations, expressing "indignation" at what he called "a campaign of calumny against the French military." He insinuated that the campaign was part of a foreign plot against France's nuclear ambitions. Said Hernu: "I know well that in the shadow zones of this affair there is malice." Hernu pledged that if he had been "disobeyed or lied to," then the government would be asked to draw the proper conclusions...
...wouldn't work, for obvious reasons. No, what Bruce has done is nothing short of genius. He has turned people on to Jersey without them even knowing it. He has made the unglamourous and uninteresting into something, well, glamourous and interesting. With his bulging biceps, faded jeans, 48-hour shadow, and gravelly voice he has conned the American public into liking something they thought they'd never like--the armpit of the country...
...Boston Bruins. During the 1970s, the Bruins were The Team in Boston, but they now reside in the Celtics' very considerable shadow. Still, with the best defenseman in the NHL (Ray Bourque) and consistent success (the Bruins had the best regular-season record in the NHL two years ago), the Bees shouldn't disappoint any hockey...
...future CUE Guides are truly to reflect student opinion, then the books must be run with minimal official interference. Anything more--in particular scare tactics which amount to censorship--defeats the Guide's purpose. But if administrators again want to hide Harvard from its own shadow, cancellation seems the only realistic alternative. It would certainly be the only honest...
...this breeds a shadow society where traditional values are scarce and violence is promiscuous. For young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...