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Drunken courage fills the voids opened by basic insecurities and doubts. Indians shrink from the white experience when they encounter it. They are not prepared for it; it is foreign, they do not like...
Shahak does not shrink from using his professor ship at the "Zionist/racist" Hebrew University to defame the State of Israel. The Arab propaganda machine has been distributing this professor's material throughout this country, particularly on college campuses. The title of The Crimson article, "An Israeli Professor Fights for Human Rights" bears witness to your gullibility. The Harvard Crimson has made the anti-Israel propagandists' job that much easier at Harvard University...
...means the most bizarre features of Lionniland. There are, for example, the woodland tweezers, which grow in a pattern the fictitious Japanese botanist Uchigaki has found disturbingly similar to the game of Go. And the black Anaclea taludensis flowers, defiers of the laws of perspective -they shrink as the visitor approaches, then expand as he withdraws. The Giraluna germinates from a point somewhere above the ground; its roots grow down toward but never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque...
...Russians actually think that Carter is under strong popular pressure at home to conclude agreements with Moscow. In fact, Americans generally -and most members of Congress-like Carter's firmness and would endorse an even tougher stand. Moscow is believed to be gambling that a new President will shrink from confrontation if only the Russians seem menacing enough. That is hardly Jimmy Carter's style...
...built since 1959. The remaining 90 B-52s are up to 21 years old. The cost of refitting the B-52s will soak up much of the money saved by abandoning the B1. The rest of the money may well be diverted to other military projects or used to shrink budget deficits...