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...Every night the complexion of Harvard changes when it's time to vacuum and clean the bathroom," said Visiting Professor from Practice Charles J. Ogletree Jr., one of the school's five Black law professors. He called for a reevaluation of the school's plan for hiring minority faculty, and all the speakers decried what they termed the University's apathy in regard to increasing the number of minority faculty members...
While American officials concede that they are divided over what course to pursue against Noriega, they reject charges of a policy vacuum. "We always envisioned continually escalating economic pressure," says a senior Administration official. "We have avoided doing anything dramatic because we don't want to cause permanent damage to the Panamanian economy." Yet as U.S. banks contemplate pulling out of Panama, pessimists fret that Panama's service economy is being ravaged beyond repair; optimists predict that it will take a decade to restore investors' confidence in the country. Grouses a Panamanian official: "The American strategy has all the subtlety...
Young Communists vacuum-clean the streets, and workers paint green leaves on trees. Monuments are scrubbed with Yugoslav shampoo, and telephone lines cut by the Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium...
...most familiar and plebeian, take-out means pizza, chicken or burgers from fast-food chains, or a Chinese or Mexican meal -- or, of course, frozen or vacuum-bagged fodder from the supermarket. But these days there is a huge variety of fresh take-out food for the weary shopper. Many supermarkets offer wide menus that include not only kaleidoscopic salad bars but also many tony dishes just cooked in-house. The newly spruced-up Rice Epicurean Market in Houston offers roasted Cornish hens and beef Wellington, and it will steam lobsters to order as a customer goes about other shopping...
...including Romulo ("Rolly") Kintanar, the commander of the 25,000-member New People's Army, and Rafael Baylosis, the No. 2 man in the party. The arrests amounted to the single largest roundup of Communist rebels since Aquino came to power in 1986, and could create a crippling power vacuum within the N.P.A. -- at least for a while...