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Many people did not think so. In Push Comes To Shove: The Escalation of Student Protest, Steven J. Kelman '70 wrote that the paper "glorified the unthinking machine," pushing along the controversy while pretending to report objectively...
...come to life, half-pint hellions who drive parents and teachers to distraction with their disruptive antics. At home they clamber on kitchen counters, unscrew light bulbs and mess up the simplest tasks, from hanging up their clothes to making the bed. In school they throw erasers, kick desks, shove classmates and are so busy making nuisances of themselves that they fail to absorb their lessons. One bedeviled mother speaks for many when she says, "I would have given the kid away...
TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT. Richard Dennis, 39, known in Chicago as the Prince of the Pit, was one of the most successful commodities traders in the world. He launched bold invasions into markets ranging from Treasury bonds to precious metals. But he took a bath in financial futures after the crash and in grain during last summer's drought. His two public commodities funds lost an estimated $50 million in the past year, or nearly 50% of their value. Dennis decided last month to pack up his diminished fortune, estimated at $200 million, and move on to another...
...duck-technique sensation of the trials was 100-meter Back Specialist David Berkoff, a slim-to-skinny anthropology major from, of all places, Harvard. Backstrokers coil their bodies against the side of the pool before the start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most...
...Arafat was initially stunned, the Middle East was abuzz last week with speculation that Hussein's shove may finally push the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization into doing the unthinkable: recognizing Israel's right to exist. Such a gesture, which would amount to an unprecedented P.L.O. peace proposal, has long been demanded by the U.S. and Israel before they would even contemplate talking with the P.L.O...