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...come out and fight like a man." Whitmire says she is content running the nation's fourth largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump from mayor to the vice presidency or presidency...
...Napoleon Duarte, etc., ad nauseum are war criminals, not academics! The U.S. ruling class (including the Harvard elite) is on a campaign to drape these butchers in academic robes and shove them down the throats of students in order to make mass murder "respectable," overcome the "Vietnam syndrome" and whip up anti-Soviet war hysteria...
...notorious incident, Party Member Liu Wenxue enlisted a self-styled witch to exorcise his wife, who had just received hospital treatment for heart disease. The witch proceeded to puncture the woman's nose with a knife, string her up to the ceiling and jerk her neck with a whip. Four days later, the patient died. Liu received only a mild official reprimand...
...desert vehicles, with 106-mm recoilless rifles mounted at the rear, wheel and charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara. Outriders hang from the sides, firing their AK-47s with deadly grace. Very young and therefore very brave, the men of these small fighting units, or escadrons, whip their Toyotas' flanks until the vehicles seem to snort and froth at the bit like fine-blood Arab stallions. The young soldiers move silently, without war cries except for the high-pitched scream of their engines...
...than job openings. Nonetheless, Stephen Johansson, director of career counseling and placement at Vermont's Middlebury College, notes, "The students seem a little more relaxed. Last year when we opened our doors in the morning we had to do so with a chair in one hand and a whip in the other to beat off the crowd of panicked seniors...