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Still, the question has to be asked: who was The Big Winner? It certainly wasn't the Duke, with his lemon-sucking face and even sourer responses. He's crazy if he thinks he'll sweep into office with the shrill yelp that aid to the contras is "A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!" Turns out it's forbidden by something called the Rio Treaty--one treaty, at least, which the Soviets don't seem to have violated...
...suppose, then people like Cliff Stevenson and Joe Morrone have such a shrill stake in denouncing the inclusion of foreign players in the rosters of successful college soccer teams? Misplaced patriotism? Yeah, that's the ticket...
...lots of times. It might be interesting to see who has listened. Why doesn't CUE find out, for instance, how many senior theses various professors advise--and publish the results for all to see? Peer pressure might provide more effective motivation for take-it-easy profs than the shrill pronouncements of a student-faculty committee...
...campaign against Judge Bork is shrill, mean and anti-intellectual," a Wall Street Journal editorial commented typically. Critics of the Journal's editorial page often call it strident, narrow-minded and biased. Yet many of these critics hail the Journal's news pages for their tough coverage of the editorial page's most sacred cows and of corporate misdeeds...
Japanese style? Japan is a wild hodgepodge of gimcracky downtowns and kitschy international design ideas mixed and mismatched, its capital a shrill, Blade Runner mess of traffic, shabby office buildings and meretricious Architectural Statements. Consumer products are bland or bizarre, and in graphics anything goes...