Word: motion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Tufts Student Senate Passes ROTC Motion...
Wally Pansing, the student who authored the original resolution, said that the alternative motion which passed was completely worthless. "The teeth were taken away," he said...
...from the real context of the sacrificial pyramids and the thousands of other effigies that make up its body. Here was an absolutely ordered society whose chief religious rite was human sacrifice -- penitential rituals, on an appalling scale, whose aim was nothing less than to keep reality in motion. The Mesoamericans believed that the world could stop at any moment, that the very cosmos was always on the brink of dissolution, its cycles maintained only by sacrifice. The sun would not rise in the morning over the lakes of Tenochtitlan if it were not refreshed by streams of blood...
Each day brings a new 30-second affront to fairness. A picture of discredited Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis slowly dissolves into the face of Democratic Senator John Kerry in a spot for G.O.P. Senate challenger Jim Rappaport. A Jesse Helms ad in North Carolina lovingly replays in slow motion his Democratic Senate challenger Harvey Gantt mouthing the phrase "whether it's sex selection or whatever reason." Evidence that Gantt lied when he earlier denied that he favored abortion in such cases? Not quite. Gantt's words were snipped from a longer answer at a press conference restating his consistent...
When mutineers led by renegade Colonel Alexander Noble overran three military garrisons in the southern island of Mindanao last week with barely a shot fired, observers 500 miles away in Manila feared that a slow-motion coup attempt was under way. According to that scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...