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...Slip Sliding Away...
...moment at least, tourists can plan their travels with some confidence that their bargains will not slip away before they start shopping in boutiques. While the dollar may decline a bit more, it is unlikely to drop sharply or to go back to its days as a downhill racer. Like most American tourists, the dollar is having a good trip...
...some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show, can people deliberately move this portion of the eyebrows. Another instructive facial slip: the so-called squelched expression, the fleeting appearance of a hidden emotion, followed by a rapid adjustment back to the desired look...
Another purpose of the maneuvers may be to slip some indirect aid to the contras. In the past, the anti-Sandinista guerrillas have picked up weapons | and equipment left behind by American troops after military exercises in Honduras ended. The contras could use some help. Though the U.S. Congress does not seem to be terribly disturbed by the American military maneuvers, it cut off direct funding of the anti-Sandinista rebels last June. A vote likely in the next month on the Reagan Administration's request to renew aid with a $14 million appropriation is expected to be breathtakingly close...
Kraft isn't the only Western journalist to misunderstand and misportray Khomeini Richard Reeves, in a long story for The New Yorker on Pakistan last October, managed to slip in this gem: "Ayatollah Khomeini (or Imam Khomeini; the title applies to all Shia leaders...