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...Transportation Vice Minister Shinjiro Yamamura offered to accompany them to Pyongyang as hostage if they would let the passengers go. Eighty hours after the plane had been skyjacked, yellow steps finally were rolled up to it and 50 passengers debarked, many of them pausing on the way out to shake hands ceremoniously with their captors. Then Yamamura boarded the plane, after which the remaining 49 passengers were released. The free passengers were quickly flown to Fukuoka, where they were greeted with joyous cries of "Banzai" by friends and relatives. Flight 351 flew on to Pyongyang. Next day the North Koreans...
ACADEMIC PRESTIGE. This is flimsily supported, says X, by such misleading designations as "lower schools," "high schools" and "higher education." X would grant academic degrees at any level, and he would shake the curriculum as vigorously as a daiquiri. Hence, at the university level, students might study basket weaving and finger painting; kindergartens and elementary schools would offer courses in demography and experimental biology. No students would be failed, a strategy that "would relieve them of having to resort to the indignity of intimidating the faculty with guns and knives...
...jazz musician. He has persistently made fun of the Establishment and the past. In the matter of language, he is a total revolutionary. Too often in Germany, culture has suggested lofty abstractions and an aristocratic style. Grass has always liked to stand the German language on its head and shake it. The result is Rabelaisian horselaughs, horrifying images and earthy sights, smells and sounds that make his visions of yesterday as immediate as a stubbed toe ?or, yes, a toothache...
Should drug pushing, apparently now large enough to involve shake downs and the absorption of substantial losses, be treated as an internal problem? Ad Board members expressed concern that Harvard may be becoming...
...Your view of achievement is totally different from theirs," Howard flashed back. "They were trying to shake the committee up. not cope with CFIA bureaucracy. You deal with problems on an intellectual, statistical level here; you try to figure everything out on paper. They're not convinced that that's achieving anything, either. And you use 'juvenile' disparagingly. What's wrong with being juvenile...