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...assurances as any other vulnerable minority, and that your money will stay in the bank or be given to some other worthy cause, until those assurances are made. Write to Harvard and say you love this school and its history, but that you would love it more could it shrug off the legacy of neglect for others that colors its actions. Write Harvard and ask that it begin to feel some real sense of responsibility for its actions--on campus, in Cambridge and the nation, and around the world...
...heart attack may be triggered by unaccustomedly vigorous exercise or emotional crisis, but often it occurs during a period of little stress or activity, like sleeping. There are even "silent" heart attacks, accompanied by virtually no symptoms at all. Frequently the victim will shrug off the initial signs, even if the pain is quite strong, saying, "It's only indigestion." Some men have been known to do push-ups during an attack just to show they are all right. But such bravado can prove suicidal, because the greatest danger comes in the critical moments immediately after the attack...
...crushed, 303-119. The next step was the vote to replace the Jones resolution with the Gramm-Latta substitute. Shortly before the roll call, O'Neill admitted that the outcome was clear. "I'm not trying to change any votes out there," he said with a shrug. As for the Republicans his party needed for any chance to win, O'Neill observed: "They're kind of running for the woods...
...shrug off the wounding of its Chief Executive as if nothing had happened. Already last week, some decisions were slipping: the Administration put off announcement of a package of measures designed to help the U.S. auto industry meet foreign competition...
What doth it profit an animation director if he dreams big but draws bad? Bakshi's characters have ill-defined noses and chins, they shrug and dislocate a shoulder, they sing and recede into Peter Max poster-haste. Their gestures and voices are grossly exaggerated; they all seem to have gone to Actors Studio and learned only to overact. They are Bakshi's image of America: searching for archetypal dreams, living out clich...