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Black students Association President Zaheer Ali '94 also addressed racism in the modern world. Ali encouraged students to recognize and combat prejudice today...
...that anyone could, by that point. "The Last of the Mohicans" is incessantly and cheerfully violent, frequently in slow motion. Muskets crack and tomahawks fly. Dripping scalps are brandished. The music swells. A heart is cut out. Two hundred soldiers and 200 Indians writhe together in mortal combat, all on the screen at the same time, By the time that Uncas meets his tragic end, mortally wounded and flung from a high cliff, who cares? Besides, a nice little jig is playing while it happens...
Bush, speaking first, surprised Clinton by taking the high road, skirting the draft issue while making an eloquent case that combat experience helps forge a better President. In what Clinton aide Paul Begala calls a rush "cut- and-paste job," the Democratic nominee then deleted an elaborate defense of his draft record from his own speech to change its emphasis to (surprise!) the economy. The result: a drawn game...
Stannard's chronicle begins with Waugh as a marine officer yearning to fight for king and country. Indubitably brave, he saw little combat, unless one counts his skirmishes with superiors who thought, correctly, that he lacked discipline. As Stannard mildly notes, "Waugh's habit of striding into offices and demanding attention irritated the military bureaucrats." By the time he died of a coronary thrombosis at 63, Brideshead Revisited (published in 1945) and the Sword of Honour trilogy (completed in 1961) had sealed his reputation as one of the century's great masters of English prose. They had also established...
...Airlines at Miami International Airport, an alphabet soup of federal and state agencies went to work coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. EOC on Floor 2, FEMA on 3, JTF on 4. CAP, COE, DNR, DER, SBA, GSA, even the ubiquitous IRS. In the hallways, Army Rangers in combat camouflage crossed paths with Army engineers in red shirts, sleepy-eyed state emergency officials in rumpled clothes and even Marilyn Quayle in Bermuda shorts and a ponytail...