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...final days, the campaign also grew ugly. Kinnock called Thatcher a "would-be empress" surrounded by "spineless sycophants and doormats." Thatcher responded, "They are accusing us of having the guts and spine to put our policies forward." Both candidates traded charges about who would run the country's economy, schools, housing and National Health Service better. Thatcher, for example, defended private health coverage as "absolutely vital," so that she could go to the hospital "at the time I want and with the doctor I want." Michael Meacher, Labor's chief health spokesman, called that a "callous, inhumane and selfish" stance...
MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...
...peace, Israel agreed in 1979 to give the captured Sinai back to Egypt. But few Israelis are prepared to relinquish much of the other occupied lands. At a minimum, Israeli defense experts would insist on retaining control of the Jordan Valley, the string of hills stretching down the spine of the West Bank, and particularly the Golan Heights. To strengthen the argument that compromise is now possible, some Israelis point out that their country is no longer in danger of imminent annihilation, as it was in 1967, and can afford to make concessions for peace...
...whom the faculty, given its political leanings, feels little or no sympathy, the university is basically paralyzed, unable with any good conscience to confront them. One can't help wondering whether Dean Epps' charges against the protestors were dismissed because they lacked merit or because the university lacked spine. That the protestors continue to act with such impudence and impunity, despite the university's warnings, shows how much they despise it. They are evidently persuaded that the administration is bluffing and lacks the courage of its proclaimed convictions; and, alas, the administration continually proves them right. Though university officials bravely...
After his first four shots, the prosecution says, Goetz approached Cabey, who was slumped in the subway seat opposite him. "You don't look too bad," Goetz said. "Here's another." He fired his fifth shot, severing Cabey's spine. Even if Goetz's first rounds were fired in self-defense, Waples maintains, his final shot went well beyond the need to protect himself. In his taped confession, Goetz said, "If I was thinking a little bit more clearly, I would have put the bullet against his head and fired...