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...issued Thursday by President Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, the University declined to formally punish Tribe in any substantial way. While Tribe has been mildly chastised for the academic dishonestly, the statement, coming months after the plagiarism was publicly acknowledged, amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist...
Gold water's comment stemmed from Kennedy's spirited Senate endorsement a week earlier of Reagan's plea for power to veto individual budget appropriations. At the same time, Kennedy gave a smart slap to his own institution: "The budget process is in shambles, the deficit is out of control, and Congress is the problem...
...mind needs its illusions. One thinks of the story of a mother walking with her child. A stranger exclaims, "What a lovely girl!" The mother replies, "That's nothing, you should see her picture!" Sometimes the actors who play villains in television soap operas have women come up and slap them in restaurants. The dreams become more intense than the moments of conscious vision...
...during the Kurdish new year festival Newroz, when Kurdish nationalist sentiment traditionally runs high. Even Turkey's reticent but powerful military General Staff weighed in, issuing a statement describing the incident as an act of "treason" by "so-called citizens." Civilians, too, felt scorned. "Burning the flag is a slap in our face," said Ahmet Güney, a shop clerk in Istanbul's busy Taksim district. "We must show that we will not tolerate this." Turks have always been patriotic, but the flag-waving may be more than a response to a relatively minor incident. "Left- and right-wing...
...settlement along with Medicaid, just when the G.O.P. was trying to limit such awards and cut Medicaid spending. Even if that doesn't help their case on specific issues, some Democrats believe the Schiavo episode may change voters' general perception of the two parties. "This is a cold, bracing slap in the face for a lot of Americans, as to the degree they want these very personal issues debated upon in a political forum," says Democratic political consultant David Axelrod...