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...crucial variable that determines where and when the UC is prepared to act is apparently money. The UC was ecstatic to work with discount textbook retailer CrimsonReading.org to catalogue hundreds of texts for spring semester courses, and didn’t flinch at setting up its new “Teaching Hotline” last month. Neither of these initiatives cost the UC anything, except its members’ time. But when it comes to a buy-back program for PRS clickers, or $1,700 for daily newspapers, the UC comes up empty. With a $400,000 budget, that kind...
...chief, himself. “George Bush is a small man,” Mailer said. INVITATION TO CONTROVERSY The theology that appears in “The Castle in the Forest” raised questions on the nature of God from the audience, and Mailer did not flinch from asserting his beliefs. “God is a creator who could succeed or fail,” Mailer said. “We are God’s vision.” However, he added that we posses full agency to direct this vision. Indeed, Mailer literally tried...
...infamous reading of “My Pet Goat” to Florida school-children during Sept. 11 and about reports that terrorists were targeting New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.This strip exemplifies Rees’ philosophy of political comedy: be over-the-top, but never flinch from the fear we all feel. The dialogue goes like this:Man 1: “These fucking goddamn terrorists! They want to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge? Why, so I can’t walk across it and look at the destroyed Manhattan skyline and contemplate the fucking mass grave their...
...Borroloola, 730 km southeast of Darwin, has erupted in a series of drunken brawls. Spilling from the beer garden, heavily intoxicated Aborigines hurl cans, stones and abuse ("F___ you, c___, I'll kill you") at each other. At the hostel across the road, guests watching the communal television barely flinch. "We are so used to it now," says owner Trish Elmy, who sometimes puts up a barrier of water sprinklers to deter the mob from fighting near-or collapsing in-her property. "We know nothing gets done, so what can we do?" It's a frustration expressed in equal measure...
...like nothing I'd ever seen before." Despite the rules, Rusty would walk into their room, and Lori complained to nurses. "To me, he was sneaky," she says. One night Lori hallucinated and screamed so loudly that nurses ran to their room. Andrea, lying in bed, did not flinch. Lori's parents, David and Janna Fashenpour, came to daily group therapy for families. At first they liked Rusty. But he dominated the discussions when others tried to talk, and he answered questions the counselor asked his wife, who wouldn't nod her head. Says David Fashenpour, a retired Air Force...