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...naive, these tough teachers can be thanked in part. But they paid an awful price in their torn lives. Popular among the emigres was a story of two refugees crossing the Atlantic, one headed for America, one headed back to Europe. As their two ships pass, the old friends shout simultaneously, "Are you crazy?" With their cursed gift for awareness, the refugees understood better than anyone on either continent the black joke that history had played upon them...
...Give me a W!" shouts Sam Walton, 65, the chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, to employees at staff meetings. "Give me an A!" And so forth, down to the last T. Then he gives a final ringing cheer: "WalMart, we're No. 1!" Walton has plenty of reasons to shout. In April, sales at his 570 outlets were up 32% from the previous year. By comparison, Sears' revenues increased just 7.7%, K mart's by 5.5%, and J.C. Penney's were down...
...MUCH HERALDED "nuclear debate" of the past few years has often seemed little more than a shouting match. The Jonathan Schells holler about the immorality of weapons build-ups and the inevitability of nuclear conflict, the Caspar Weinbergers shout back about the immorality of weakness and the inevitability of Soviet adventurism Neither side takes the other seriously, and neither--because of the absolute moral terms in which their "debate" has been couched--deigns to consider more moderate views. Meanwhile the public remains largely uneducated about the complexities of nuclear strategy instead, individuals take sides based on whether they fear more...
...folks who hackled Jerry Falwell when the fundamentalist preacher spoke at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum last Monday. For many liberal college students. Falwell embodies the worst of the New Right's arrogant dogmatism and political backwardness, and his appearance provided a golden opportunity to shout "the Moral Majority is neither" right in the face of the man who founded that New Right lobbying group and gave it its presumptuous name. Snickering and hissing at Falwell released pent-up anger at the Reagan Administration's attacks on gays, women, Blacks, Central America, and the welfare state, making the preacher...
...leaving the building's grounds around 5 p.m. Mayer told a group of students. "People aren't given tenure on the basis of how loudly they can shout into a microphone...