Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...will be Class Marshal. I hate to harp on this point, but it's true--let's face it, the typical Harvard student is not the Class Marshal, which is a position only one or at most a few (I'll have to check on this) people can hold...
...Japan has its own trouble with "the vision thing." Despite its status as an economic superpower, the country suffers from global parochialism. The closest approximation of a grand strategy is the goal of keeping the world safe for Japanese exports and investments. The political system depends, sometimes to the point of paralysis, on consensus. The prime ministership has rarely been a bully pulpit, especially in recent years. After a massive stock-trading scandal, the shoguns of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose Kaifu in 1989 not just because he was untainted. He was untested and unthreatening as well, a caretaker...
...fact in a coating of hyperbole. On McLaughlin, he decried the prospect of military action against Iraq: "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States." To underscore the point, he wrote that war would result in Americans "humping up that bloody road to Baghdad . . . kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales and Leroy Brown." In sharp contrast to that litany of normally Christian surnames was his attack in another column on four advocates of action against Iraq, all identifiably Jewish...
...Doctors point out that isotretinoin is hardly a benign drug. In addition to causing side effects ranging from dry, scaly skin to high levels of fat in the bloodstream, the drug is believed to have triggered hundreds of birth defects when it was taken by pregnant women during the early 1980s...
...eerie feeling of dipping into a version of Proust's Swann's Way written from the point of view of the object of Swann's fixation. Farrell in no way resembles the fictional Odette, but she tries to distance herself from suffocating attention, tries to limit passion to the stage and embrace practicality off it. Balanchine's attentions were consuming. He designed little furs for her and bought her shoes because "I just love to hear you clip-clopping along." After she broke the spell, she danced old roles and new ones, finally watching Mr. B.'s slow decline...