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Anyone with an ethnic image will likely find his candidacy stung by losses in the South--especially a Northeastern, liberal ethnic. Mario Cuorro knew this and decided not to run. Hopefully the Duke will learn this lesson also and help his party by dropping out of the race...
When news of the ski switch leaked out, Rossignol's stock immediately slumped from 1,521 francs (about $249) to 1,350 francs ($221) on the Paris Bourse. The team criticism and the stock plunge, which wiped out 11% of Rossignol's market value, stung company officials. Stormed President Laurent Boix-Vives: "We don't have to prove ourselves. Half the 66 medals awarded at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics and the last two world championships, including 13 golds, were won on our skis...
...quantum find, he is thought to be worth a full knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric. In his salt-stung eyes, which now and then send him tearing off to Perth doctors, the ocean appears multicolored, rich in textures, contours and clues. Some believe he can see past the horizon, even into his opponent's cockpit. Why he tacks on the next wave instead of this one is a mystery...
Irritated Chinese officials promptly responded that the letter writers did not represent the "overwhelming majority of the Chinese abroad," who "welcome" Hu's resignation. Whatever the truth of that claim, the protest by the U.S.-based students clearly stung. Said China Scholar Anne Thurston: "It is always significant when anyone who is Chinese and who plans to go back to China puts his name on a document of protest." Declared a student from Shanghai at Columbia University: "Chinese students overseas are becoming an independent political influence in China's politics...
...have the sensation we've slipped through a rabbit hole into something of a fantasy land. The President is demanding Congress . . . furnish him with a report describing in detail a plan that was formulated and perhaps executed either in or within a few feet of the Oval Office." Stung by such barbs, the White House announced that Independent Adviser David Abshire is regularly briefing Reagan on Iranscam developments and added that the President is quite interested -- as if that could not be simply assumed...