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...Jane Fonda's earlier off-to-Hanoi days, she was widely reviled as a combination of La Pasionaria and shrill brat. She has since become thought of as a fine actress. Her book on physical exercise is a bestseller, and she has a chain of body-fitness shops. She hasn't changed all that much; opinion has. In most American families, she is now regarded as the niece with strident and unpopular opinions that are accepted as part...
Mugabe, who considers himself a Marxist, has made no secret of his long-term aim of turning Zimbabwe into a one-party state, but is too dependent on aid from the West, primarily the U.S. and Britain, to risk a further swing to the left. Given the shrill tone of Smith's comments, many in Harare wondered if the former Prime Minister was not trying to impose conditions on American...
...turned away. Coming back to overflowing IN baskets is nothing new for the court, nor are complaints about it. But with the number of cases filed having doubled over the past 20 years to 4,400 last term, calls for some sort of relief are again getting shrill, even desperate. And they are led by the Justices...
Annnh! Annnh! Annnh! The repeating pierce of shrill fire alarms has become a staple for Lowellians at all hours. In the wee hours of the morning they catapult you from bed, ending sweet dreams with an abruptness Freud never could have explained. At breakfast they jar your attention from your Raisin-Bran, startling you into sudden alertness more effectively than the strongest black coffee. These aren't the lyric chimes of the famed House bells. They are Harvard's reminder to Lowellians that, mid way through October, construction still continues on the half century old structure. And they...
...latest indications from Peking are that China's idea of sovereignty includes a formula giving the People's Republic some measure of political control over the colony. In a shrill attack late last week, Xinhua, China's official news agency, declared that "unequal treaties forced upon the Chinese people provide an iron clad proof of British imperialism's plunder of Chinese territory. It is a sacred mission," the report added, "of the Chinese government and people to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong." But however mild, such control would mean an end to Hong Kong...