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Although neither woman accepted Harvard's offer, most students now recognize that some change has occurred, even if it has not been as swift as they would have liked...
...online orgy is winding down. Suzi and Norm have consummated their encounter, and the voyeurs who had gathered to watch have started to drift away. Hoping to rekindle some heat, one bystander tentatively approaches Annabeth and slips his hand under her sweater. But rejection in cyberspace can be uniquely swift and stinging: Annabeth types back that she is snapping off her suitor's sex organ and tossing it over her shoulder. So much for safe romance...
...Brown showed at her recent reading at the Brattle Theatre, she is far more consistently appealing as a speaker. She convulsed her audience with swift one-liners: "You can't be saved if you don't sin," she explained persuasively. "Jesus died for our sins, I wouldn't want him to have died in vain." Or "Jesse Helms has accused me of single handedly converting American women to lesbianism. How wrong he is. It takes both hands...
Some members of Congress said they would favor swift military retaliation against Iraq if it could be proved that Baghdad was behind a supposed plot to assassinate George Bush during his trip last month to Kuwait...
...Vietnam-like quagmire (and against the private advice of senior military officers like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who believes intervention should be massive or not at all), the President seems bent on adopting a feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Serbs, says the President, have benefited from the West's de facto intervention...