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Taking Foreign Cultures 66, "Tiananmen," gives me a very weird feeling, something like drinking poison to quench my thirst. The course, as it progresses, will be hard for me to swallow if I don't find a way to immediately get rid of my stubborn national protectionism from the Chinese sense of pride. So far the possibility of such a solution remains...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: In China, Freedom Is a Luxury | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

...Kisses a psychic return to the soothing days of her childhood, as hinted at by its uncharacteristically sentimental title. Judging from Fraser's statements and the material on these two EP's, the Cocteaus seem to have succumbed to the disease that terrifies every Prozac-wary auteur -- a thirst for happiness...

Author: By Nina Kang, | Title: Cocteau Twins Lose Their Angry Roots | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...that year, the Faculty approved a non-financial benefits package designed to satisfy retired professors' thirst for intellectual stimulation...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod and Todd F. Braunstein, S | Title: Schools Consider Faculty Aging | 10/27/1995 | See Source »

...resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst for banned books and extraclerical activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: LOVE AMONG THE RUINS | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...actually providing its hideous adversaries with resources they should never have access to. The method of generously distributing weapons and training in the name of creating an environment where weapons are used properly, instead of taking them all away, is just like drinking poison to quench one's thirst; ammunition flows almost smoothly into the hands of the very people that the rifle program intends to control. Moreover, some talk show hosts are advocating the job of introduction of more fragile souls into the realm of hatred and violence. Freedom of speech, here, has gone...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: The Pop Culture of Violence | 5/12/1995 | See Source »

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