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...counterstrike swiftly followed. The competing commercial showed a small carrottop boy playing with wooden alphabet blocks that spell Star Wars; he is vainly trying to arrange them to spell Peace Shield. A portentous voice intones, "Matthew's learning what adults already know: when someone wants to mislead you, they try to change the name." Then, an epiphany: "I got it!" Matthew says. "Space Wars...
...former high-ranking People executive thinks that the airline's personnel problems may be only beginning. Says he: "Burr has brainwashed employees into working 60-to-80-hour weeks by calling them all managers. They're in Disneyland, but his spell can go only so far." The former executive asserts that People's management is not nearly as democratic as Burr says. "There's only one way to do things at People Express, and that's Don Burr's way," says he. "Not only does Burr dislike being second-guessed, he dislikes being first-guessed...
...line is simply to insist that Soviet negotiators spell out all the small print in Gorbachev's proposals. So far as it goes, that is logical. For all its ambiguities and propagandistic sweep, the plan hints at enough concessions to spur serious negotiating. Only detailed probing at Geneva will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come...
...uncharted waters of the real world, Zaccagnino hopes that this motivation—along with his unwillingness to leave any banjo case unturned—will spell more musical successes...
...elections (as Glazer’s running mate), defeated graduating council member Jason L. Lurie ’05, 22-20. His election by a narrow margin—against an outgoing council member—and his selection by the outgoing council, not by the student body, both spell a tenuous mandate for Capp, who must now tread lightly as he serves out the remainder of Nichols’ term...