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SOME people make history, others just succumb to it. In the events of the past year in Eastern Europe, Gorbachev has played a passive role. He did not "break up an old bloc;" he merely let the old bloc crumble. The only active decision he made in these events of Eastern Europe was the decision not to play the role of a Deng Xiaoping or a Leonid Brezhnev...
White sales, the first days of a New Year's-resolution diet, an entry in a magazine subscription sweepstakes: January is a month of small hopes. And of petty disappointments: you know that the queen-size percales are going to be sold out, that you are going to succumb to a chocolate fit and that Ed McMahon is not going to appear on the doorstep and hand you a million-dollar check...
Racism in the crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least until such racial match-ups cease to be novelties...
...conventional wisdom is that this year's council will succumb to such political frustration and primarily focus on "student services." Accordingly, one candidate in last week's elections advertised that, if elected, he would not waste time on the "hip issues" ("final clubs and ROTC") but would rather emphasize "the issues that really affect...
...manner on a small scale, the toss of the head, the laugh of scorn, the sweep of the hand. Only the snarl was missing. 'I have only one fear,' Hitler said. 'It is that the countries around us, into which the poison of Bolshevism is eating its way, will succumb to the Red wave one after another. Moscow is seeking to dominate Europe. We shall never permit that...