Word: slapping
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Giving President Lech Walesa what he described as "a slap on the cheek," Polish voters elected his challenger, Alexander Kwasniewski, with 51.7% of the vote. A former communist, Kwasniewski, 41, campaigned as a pro-Western, reform-minded Social Democrat. Said he: "The divisions between those who are former communists and those who were with Solidarity are not so important outside the intellectual circles of Warsaw...
...most disappointed because I feel this is a slap in the face and a delegitimization of the scholars who have taken the time to come here and are treated as if their fields are inconsequential to this campus," said Jennifer Ching '96, who handles administrative affairs for the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), a cosponsor of the conference...
...same slap in the face that the Harvard men's hockey team endured four seasons ago. The Crimson won the ECAC regular-season championship, but the NCAA hockey committee left it out of The Dance. And you know what, the icemen went on to win the ECAC the next two years and make those two national tournaments...
...bill that maintains stiffer penalties for crack cocaine than for the powdered form of the drug. Since studies have found that Black Americans are more frequent users of crack than white Americans, who more often use powdered cocaine, some view the penalty difference as unfair. "This is a slap in the face for black people, and I don't understand why he did it," says TIME's Sylvester Monroe. "He could have avoided criticism by equalizing the punishments, but instead it looks like he supports the bias against blacks. This is especially surprising because he has had a good record...
...published volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966), onward, he has produced intense, lyrical works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...