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Perhaps the administration is taking its cue from the Harvard Jewish community, which has also hesitated to label the vandalism anti-Semitic. If this is the case, Jewish students, too, should recognize the act for what...
When a politician says he has no plans to run for president, we say he is "sitting this one out." When a politician says he has no plans to make plans to run for president, we label him a "non-candidate...
...communist domination has not meant the end of the party. Despite a mass exodus of members, it thrives in several East European countries, though always with a new name. The Bulgarian Socialist Party -- the old Communist Party with a new label -- emerged victorious in May 1990 in the country's first free parliamentary elections in 50 years. That same month, Romanian Ion Iliescu, a communist official under the hated Ceausescu, won a two-year term as interim President with a startling 85% of the vote. His party, the National Salvation Front, had shed its identity as the Communist Party only...
Some may find this novel's title, with its punning allusions to Bach's Goldberg Variations and Poe's short story The Gold Bug, a little too cute, and they are probably right. On the other hand, The Gold Bug Variations passes the truth-in-advertising test: the label accurately reflects the additives Bach and Poe to the contents inside and warns away consumers who prefer their fiction plain...
...never be inside the Havana Club again: tickets can be bought only with dollars, and by law he is allowed to hold no more than $5 in U.S. currency, half the price of admission. A visiting tourist pays Juan Antonio's way, but he is worried his friends will label him a jinetero, or gigolo. He is also worried that the police will arrest him for consorting with foreigners, so he asks that his real name not be used. His paranoia is so pervasive that he finds it hard to believe he can wander the club floor without being stopped...