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...guess I just did not have enough confidence at the time to "shoot everyone the finger," so to speak. For awhile, I adopted the strangest manner of dress, suitable for gypsy costumes in a late 1930s musical. I despised things Dallas or Southern, and I rejected bar-b-qued chicken, okra and squash souffle. My parents, I think, believed I was mad, and they wrung their hands in despair...
...general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year, then exiled to Turkey. He soon moved to the Iraqi city of An Najaf...
That was Ronald J. Granieri's first year at Harvard. Since then he has moderated his tactics and his tone but has continued to poke his finger in the eyes of campus liberals. Granieri, now a senior, rose quickly to become the editor of the Salient, the monthly that is the voice of Harvard's tiny but vocal cluster of conservative students. He still has strong opinions and his outspokenness continues to irritate some classmates...
...ring on his finger, senior Greg Ubert couldn't explain what happened to the football team last fall. The magical 1987 Ivy championship season was followed by a miserable bottom-of-the-pack outing...
...discover, perhaps not for the first or fifth time, that his hero is even more gifted as writer than as entertainer. In a superb story called What Did We Do Wrong?, the first woman major-league baseball player hits .300 but slobbers tobacco juice, gives fans the finger and can't deal with the hot-breathed lunacy of a nation's love. In Meeting Famous People, a country-music star is hunted down and sued, then jailed and beaten after he $ refuses a fan's request for a handshake. In the title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities...