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...linguistics graduate students gather in the departmental library for one of the two graduate seminars in which Bergvall is currently enrolled--phonetics. The course is designed to give the department's grad students an ear for using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system including English and Greek symbols which can represent any of the approximately 100 sounds in human speech...
...sense-and some have not. Evidently, he has not as he can never find his meals unless someone is kind enough to assist him. Even then he's ungrateful, as behold what he did to me. I only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center of the lot, and when I went to get off threw me over his head with a buck and a bawl...
...absence of a strong lead from Shultz, the President's ear has been captured by right-wing advisers such as Clark and Weinberger. Even on Middle East policy, Shultz is in some danger of being upstaged. The very pro-Israel Kirkpatrick departed Saturday on a trip of her own to Israel, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, from which she will return on March 26, doubtless with some strongly worded advice for Reagan...
...appalling that the Jews, who for hundreds of years have been the victims of the worst atrocities, turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the events in the Sabra and Shatila camps. However, we are forgetting that the Christian Phalangists carried out the massacre...
...manage to be topical without sounding like every other pundit; he can venture into quirky subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats, yet he is quicker to offer a correction, or to let a target answer back, than almost any other eminent columnist...