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...look for lines at Lamont. Watch for whitecapes on the Charles. "It's the type of course where, if you don't do the reading, the professor is going to stamp all over you," Gelg warned...
...grassroots sentiment. Perhaps the Renaissance popes can be excused, Tuchman argues, surrounded as they were by the trappings of their office. But British parliamentarians, who pioneered the system of representative government, should have listened to the "common man" when he called from America for representation. Americans protesting the Stamp Act had no ideas of breaking away from English rule; they just found it unfair to be taxed without a voice...
...streets and sidewalks leading to most voting stations were jammed. The voters were inspired by more than the desire to exercise their rights: by Salvadoran law, failure to vote is punishable by a fine of up to $20. Although the fine is rarely levied, failure to get a voting stamp for one's national ID card might result in arrest by security forces as a suspected "subversive...
...true that the electoral process in El Salvador was by no means perfect. Salvadorans felt much pressure to get an election stamp on their identity cards. Leftist candidates could not participate for fear of assassination...
...open a discreet line of communication with the rebels in El Salvador? I exploded: no longer, I said, would Washington deal secretly with insurgents who were attempting to overthrow legal governments in the Western Hemisphere. In the next four years, the Americas would see a determined U.S. effort to stamp out Cuban-supported subversion...