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Immediately before Rosales was to speak,Kashani said he saw a student "collecting spit inhis mouth" for the purpose of spitting it atRosales. Kashani said he pointed the camera at himand said, "Just swallow." The student "swallowedand smiled," Kashani said...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Contra Returns Amid Tight Security; Science Center Audience Videotaped | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...disturbing that Austrian voters have not been more critical of Waldheim's refusal to come clean, particularly since documents revealed in the past week hint at a deeper involvement than the one Waldheim is currently asking us to swallow. We can only hope, with little optimism, that the June 8, vote will rebuff...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Remember | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...traditional here, and the entire fabric still fits very well together. The system has been in place for 200 years, and people feel very comfortable with their government and their religion. What alternative has been offered?" Yet that may be too simple. While the Saudis clearly will not swallow all foreign ways whole, they are just as clearly a country in transition from feudal to modern times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia Facing a Double-Barreled Gun | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...with a large portion of the Harvard community, including K-School students and graduates who have petitioned and called for recision of the award. But recision is not the solution; it would only compound the huge public relations fracture. It's asking too much for the K-School to swallow its pride and also shoot itself in the chest in its relations with the Administration. Two solutions present themselves. Meese took the first step in damage control by postponing his appearance. That gives the K-School time to graciously forget that they ever offered the award or to rename...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Mindlessly Besotted | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...shiny appeal of such fragments--like slogans, logos, celebrated epigrams--leads us to swallow them whole without looking inside to the essential emptiness. Here, the fragmentation in Barthes' writing is not deliberate, not a formal statement but rather an unfortunate accident...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: Writing on Writing | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

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