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...students don't ask much of April--just that it be extraordinary, featuring a blossoming social life, spectacular weather and a relatively light course load. But as always, April crumps on its end of the deal. The month is just unfair--a reality we're not quite prepared to swallow--because the April we'd like to be living is the one we dreamed of in January...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: April Showers, Life Sours | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

Others suggest demilitarizing the Palestinian state. There is no question that that would have to be a first step, but from the viewpoint of Palestinians, demilitarization is a difficult demand to swallow. Independence without an army is still degrading, all the more so for a people so committed in the past to "armed struggle." So, sooner or later, Israel would face a Palestinian army. Until the P.L.O. renounces Israel's destruction as an aim, it seems unreasonable to ask Israel to hand the P.L.O. a state and a base overlooking Tel Aviv (Moses' capital) and Jerusalem (Israel's capital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Bank Reality | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

...only possible explanation is that the Harvard community considers CIA training so unobjectionable, or at least so comparatively unobjectionable, that it will swallow it without protest...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Absence of Intelligence | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th fcentury. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating The System | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...idea of a railroad as small as the Denver & Rio Grande Western (2,500 miles of track) trying to swallow one as big as the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) conjures up memories of the Little Engine That Could. Yet the Rio Grande has emerged as the front runner in a heated competition to acquire Southern Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Coupling On the Rails | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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