Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, a plan to scrap the CRR entirely and create a new student-faculty body is currently being considered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' steering committee. A final version of this plan should be released within a few weeks...
...this version of how the Iran affair unfolded, the CIA turf argument evolved into a dispute over whether to trust Manucher Ghorbanifar, the expatriate Iranian merchant and middleman who had offered to help the U.S. establish contacts in Iran. CIA activists in the agency's counterterrorism program supported the use of Ghorbanifar but eventually were outmaneuvered by the agency's Middle East operations officers, who waged a campaign to discredit the Iranian. Once Ghorbanifar was cut out of the delicate negotiations and the operatives at the Iran desk had prevailed in their efforts to have the U.S. bargain directly with...
...WELL, I guess this is goodbye." the tube said as he hopped out the passenger door and headed for his version of Valhalla...
...Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains of the Old West, this harshland sustains, just...
...might be. To punch it up a bit, suppose that Roth's fiction was clamorously acclaimed; that his first published volume, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won the National Book Award and made the author a name to be reckoned with at 27. Implausible, true, but more dramatic than the other version. And what about that happily-ever-after marriage? Maybe it lasted only a few years before plummeting into an acrimonious separation in 1963 that left Roth deep in debt, thanks to legal expenses, and sent him reeling into five years of psychoanalysis. Awful, but for the sake of the narrative...