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...torch an American flag. On the 'Arab street,' the Iraqi dictator has always been able to count on the support of the lumpen element - the ill-informed, reflexively anti-Israel and anti-American mob that sees in Saddam something akin to a working class hero, his very survival a slap in the face of the hated United States...
...there to sing, of course, though he played a vigorous rhythm guitar, ceding the fancy solos to Scotty Moore. But on one 1957 session, when slap-bassist Bill Black walked out in frustration after being unable to master the rumbling electric-bass intro for the Leiber-Stoller "Baby, I Don't Care," Elvis picked up the instrument and played the line perfectly. He would also push for extra takes to get a song right. He insisted on 31 stabs at "Hound Dog," then listened pensively to the playbacks and said of the final take, "This...
...that Hispanics, Asians, gays and foreigners need their own senate seat is also a paternalist slap in the face to those students; it assumes that they need special treatment in order to achieve. Can’t a gay man run on his own merit? Or a Hispanic woman? Of course. For the most part, preferential diversity seats aside, Amherst is a fair place. The Amherst student government is composed of individuals who ran for election and were voted into office on their own individual merit. The student senate may think that it is leveling some phantasmal playing field...
...game-tying goal came two minutes and 49 seconds later, when junior forward Tim Pettit, the team’s leading scorer, fired a slap shot from the right face-off circle that beat both Kowalski and the horn...
...Saudi suspected by the CIA of terrorist ties had applied for a visa. "If you look at the lessons learned from Sept. 11," says Ed Sketch, director of Ford's Learning Network, which uses Autonomy software to categorize and distribute information to all its salaried employees, "this technology is slap-bang in the middle because it sorts the relevant from the irrelevant to keep an organization from drowning in data...