Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab Students' anti-Israel campaign is filled with extremism. anti-Americanism, sensationalism, and hate. The Palestinians have legitimate complaints, but the United States is standing true to its ideals by continuing to support Israel, the sole democracy in the region and a country with a human right record far superior to that of any member of the Arab League. While its members claim to do otherwise, the Society of Arab Students systematically attempts to block rational consideration of the current conflict. Glen I.A. Schwaber...
...consistency to the winds in favor of little epigrams and bitchy asides ("She looked like a Christmas cracker with no present inside"). Weldon even produced this flighty nonsense the old-fashioned way: in weekly installments for the British magazine Woman. The Hearts and Lives of Men will make superior feminist beach reading...
What is left onscreen is a faithfully translated narrative. Jamie loses his job, loses his wife, uses his friends, mostly in the pursuit of drugs. But his story is an attenuated one, and when it is told flatly, Jamie turns into a terrible twit, alternately superior and self-pitying, especially with a sympathetic older colleague (Swoosie Kurtz) at the New Yorker-like magazine where both work. The fact that his mother loved him but died does not really excuse him. The fact that Fox brings the sympathy he has won, and the comic elan he has perfected, on television cannot...
...impressive record as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. There he won 108 convictions out of 111 cases of public corruption that his office prosecuted. His difficulties with Meese began last May, as he reviewed allegations against Meese to determine whether they required investigation by a special prosecutor. Weld consulted his superior, Burns, an affable former New York corporate lawyer who, as Meese's top aide, supervised the daily workings of the department bureaucracy...
...Lowell was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round. So was Northeastern (by Division II Merrimack). Although Maine won its second-round series over Bowling Green (the first Hockey East playoff victory since 1985), it was dumped by Lake Superior State in Lake Placid...